In the atmosphere latent heat is a property of water vapour. When water vapour condenses it releases latent heat, and latent heat must be supplied to evaporate liquid water. This heat affects the behaviour of the weather. Similar effects occur in the change from liquid water to ice and vice versa.
Since the sunis the principal energy source for atmospheric processes, it is critically important. Without the sun, not only would those processes not exist, but the atmosphere would condense and freeze and the planet would be uninhabitable by the forms of life that now exist on it.
Since the sunis the principal energy source for atmospheric processes, it is critically important. Without the sun, not only would those processes not exist, but the atmosphere would condense and freeze and the planet would be uninhabitable by the forms of life that now exist on it.
Hailstorms are a variety of thunderstorms. Thunderstorms get their energy from latent heat stored in water vapor.
The sun.
sunSolar energy, from the sun's rays.
The Sun is the main and most important energy source.
Incoming radiant energy from the sun
Since the sunis the principal energy source for atmospheric processes, it is critically important. Without the sun, not only would those processes not exist, but the atmosphere would condense and freeze and the planet would be uninhabitable by the forms of life that now exist on it.
energy, oxygen
The sewage
Latent heat from evaporated ocean water
The most important source off all is WATER!