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What is the difference between convection orographic and frontal lifting?
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An orographic precipitation occurs when two convectional or air masses of different temperature meet. Is this true?
No this is not true. This is a frontal cloud formation, therefore, it produces frontal precipitation. Frontal is formed when two air masses of different tempeartures meet. Orographic precipitation occurs when a cloud travels up a mountain.
What are the main types of atmospheric lifting and precipitation?
Advective, orographic, convergent and frontal.
What types of rain are there?
There are three types of rain: # Convectional rain # Orographic Rain # Frontal Rain
What are three causes of non-convective low-level wind shear?
Frontal passage, low-level temperature inversion and orographic effect.
What are the three main forms of clouds?
Convective clouds, Frontal clouds and Orographic clouds
What are the causes of uplift in the atmosphere?
Convection (rising air), orographic uplift/forced convection (air up a mountain), frontal uplift (front), and convergence uplift (air masses converge)
What is forced convection?
Convection caused by frontal or orographic lifting, or converging surface winds.
An orographic precipitation occurs when two convectional or air masses of different temperature meet. Is this true?
No this is not true. This is a frontal cloud formation, therefore, it produces frontal precipitation. Frontal is formed when two air masses of different tempeartures meet. Orographic precipitation occurs when a cloud travels up a mountain.
What are the main types of atmospheric lifting and precipitation?
Advective, orographic, convergent and frontal.
What are three lifting mechanisms for air?
Convective, orographic, frontal lifting, and convergent.
What types of rain are there?
There are three types of rain: # Convectional rain # Orographic Rain # Frontal Rain
What are three ways of precipitation?
orographic, cyclonic/frontal, convectional rainfall
The earths precipitation occurs as convectional orographic or?
The Earth's precipitation occurs through convectional, orographic, or frontal mechanisms. Convectional precipitation happens when warm air rises, cools, and forms clouds. Orographic precipitation occurs when moist air is forced to rise over a mountain, leading to cooling and rainfall. Finally, frontal precipitation happens at the boundary of two air masses with different temperatures and moisture levels, causing the warm air to rise and condense into precipitation.
What are three causes of non-convective low-level wind shear?
Frontal passage, low-level temperature inversion and orographic effect.
What are the three main forms of clouds?
Convective clouds, Frontal clouds and Orographic clouds
Describe 4 processes that lift air masses?
Orographic lifting (mountain) Conditional/Absolute Instability Frontal Wedging (Cold, Warm Front) Convergence
What are the 3 types of rainfall?
Some fancy names have been given to this question, Convectional, Orographic and Frontal. I will stick to the more simple types such as Lite falls , mediums falls and heavy or flooding rains. I am also including mist and fog because they both contain water vapour.
