[Understanding Weather & Climate, Books a la Carte Edition (6th Edition) #ISBN-13: 978-0321773227 #ISBN-10: 0321773225 CH 5 Atmospheric Moisture]
Forms of Condensation
P.146 Table 5-3
Dew is usually formed on cool, clear, calm nights ;
Frost‘s formation is similar to dew but they also need a temperature below freezing (0 °C)
- Dew
- Lowering temperature to dew point near the surface
- prefer clear skies and no wind, and usually formed during the early morning
- Diabatic process
- Frost
- Lowering temperature to frost point, of which temperature is below 0°C
- Diabatic process
- Frozen dew
- formation dew and then cool down to a temperature below 0°C
- Diabatic process
- Fog
- Radiation fog
- Advection fog
- Upslope fog
- Precipitation fog
- Steam fog
- Clouds
- lifting of air
- Adiabatic process
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