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(in ‘meteorology’, precipitation is any product of the ‘condensation’ of ‘atmospheric water vapor’ that falls under ‘gravity’)
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(the main forms of ‘precipitation’ include…)
‘drizzle’
‘rain’
‘sleet’
‘snow’
‘graupel’
‘hail’
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(‘precipitation’ occurs when a portion of the atmosphere becomes ‘saturated’ with ‘water vapor’, so that the water ‘condenses’ and “precipitates”)
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(thus, ‘fog’ + ‘mist’ are not ‘precipitation’ but ‘suspensions’, because the ‘water vapor’ does not condense sufficiently to ‘precipitate’)
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(2 processes (possibly acting together), can lead to ‘air’ becoming ‘saturated’…)
“cooling the air”
and/or
“adding ‘water vapor’ to the air”
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(‘precipitation’ forms as smaller droplets ‘coalesce’ via ‘collision’ with other ‘rain drops’ or ‘ice crystals’ within a ‘cloud’)
(‘short intense periods’ of rain in scattered locations are called “showers”)
(‘moisture overriding’ associated with ‘weather fronts’ is an overall major method of ‘precipitation production’)
(if enough ‘moisture’ + ‘upward motion’ is present, ‘precipitation’ falls from ‘convective clouds’ such as ‘cumulonimbus’ and can organize into ‘narrow rainbands’)
(where ‘relatively warm water bodies’ are present, for example due to ‘water evaporation’ from ‘lakes’, ‘lake-effect snowfall’ becomes a concern downwind of the ‘warm lakes’ within the ‘cold cyclonic flow’ around the backside of ‘extra-tropical cyclones’)
(‘lake-effect snowfall’ can be ‘locally heavy’)
(‘thundersnow’ is possible within a cyclone’s ‘comma head’ and within ‘lake effect precipitation bands’)
(n ‘mountainous areas’, ‘heavy precipitation’ is possible where ‘upslope flow’ is maximized within ‘windward sides’ of the terrain at ‘elevation’)
(on the ‘leeward side’ of ‘mountains’, ‘desert climates’ can exist due to the ‘dry air’ caused by ‘compressional heating’)
(the movement of the ‘monsoon trough’ (or ‘inter-tropical convergence zone’), brings ‘rainy seasons’ to ‘savannah climes’)
(‘precipitation’ is a major component of the ‘water cycle’, and is responsible for ‘depositing’ the ‘fresh water’ on the ‘planet’)
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(approximately ‘505,000 cubic kilometers (/ ‘121,000 cubic miles) of ‘water’ falls as ‘precipitation’ each year…)
(‘398,000 cubic kilometers’ (/ ‘95,000 cubic miles’) of it over the ‘oceans’)
(‘107,000 cubic kilometers’ (/ ‘26,000 cubic miles’) over ‘land’)
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(given the earth’s ‘surface area’, that means the ‘globally averaged annual precipitation’ is ‘990 millimeters’ (/ ’39 inches’), but over land it is only ‘715 millimeters’ (/ ‘28.1 inches’))
(‘climate classification systems’ such as the ‘löppen climate classification system’ use ‘average annual rainfall’ to help differentiate between differing ‘climate regimes’)
(‘precipitation’ may occur on other ‘celestial bodies’)
(*EG*) –>
(when it gets ‘cold’, ‘mars’ has ‘precipitation’ which most likely takes the form of ‘ice needles’, rather than ‘rain’ or ‘snow’)
“yikes!”
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