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Cloud Formation & Characteristic

Clouds form when water vapor in the air condenses into water droplets or ice crystals. There are several ways clouds can form, including through convection currents when air parcels rise and expand, causing the temperature to decrease and the water vapor to condense. There are different types of clouds classified by their height - high-level clouds like cirrus and cirrocumulus found above 20,000 feet, middle-level clouds like altocumulus between 6,000 and 20,000 feet, and low-level clouds like stratus and cumulus below 6,000 feet. Clouds move with wind currents and provide important indicators of weather patterns and air movement at different altitudes.

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Cloud Formation & Characteristic

Clouds form when water vapor in the air condenses into water droplets or ice crystals. There are several ways clouds can form, including through convection currents when air parcels rise and expand, causing the temperature to decrease and the water vapor to condense. There are different types of clouds classified by their height - high-level clouds like cirrus and cirrocumulus found above 20,000 feet, middle-level clouds like altocumulus between 6,000 and 20,000 feet, and low-level clouds like stratus and cumulus below 6,000 feet. Clouds move with wind currents and provide important indicators of weather patterns and air movement at different altitudes.

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CLOUD FORMATION &

CHARACTERISTIC.

GROUP I – PRESENTATION
MANABAT, MARK ANTHONY
BAQUIRAN, NOLI JOSE SAMUEL
LOPEZ, PAULO
DEL MUNDO, JUSTIN
What are Clouds?
• A cloud is a large collection of very tiny
droplets of water or ice crystal. The
droplets are so small and light that
they can float in the air!
HOW ARE CLOUDS
FORMED?
Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air
condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals.
There is water around us all the time in the form of
tiny gas particles, also known as water vapors. There
are also tiny particles floating around in the air - such
as salt and dust - these are called aerosols.
RISING AIR
• Imagine a block of air (air parcel)
rising upward through the
atmosphere.
• As the air parcel rises it expands!
• The expansion causes the
temperature of the air parcel to
decrease.
CONDESATION
• Water which collects as droplets on a cold surface when
humid air is in contact with it.
• The conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid.
FORMATION
 This can happen through many different ways
• Convections Currents
• Lifting
• Frontal Activity
CONVECTION
CURRENTS
LIFTING
(HELPING MOUNTAINS)
FRONTAL ACTIVITY
(Warm & Cold)
WHY DO CLOUDS TURN GRAY?
Cloud are made up of tiny water droplets or ice
crystal, usually a mixture of both. The water and
ice scatter all light, making clouds appear white.
However, if the clouds get thick enough (too
much water vapor) all the light above does not
make it through, hence the gray or dark look
WHY DO CLOUDS FLOAT?

A cloud is made up of liquid water


droplets. A cloud forms when air is
heated by the sun. As it rises, it slowly
cools it reaches the saturation point and
water condenses, forming a cloud. As
long as the cloud and the air its made of
is warner than the outside air around it,
it floats!
HOW DO CLOUDS MOVE?

Clouds move with the wind. High cirrus


clouds are pushed along by the jet
stream, sometimes traveling at more
than 100 miles-per-hour. When clouds
part of a thunderstorm they usually travel
at 30 to 40 mph.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES
OF CLOUDS?
There are many different types of
cloud and different ways to identify
them. This type of identification
classifies clouds by the height of
the cloud base.
• High level Clouds
• Mid-level Clouds
• Low-level Clouds
• Miscellaneous Clouds
HIGH ALTITUDE CLOUDS:
• Cirrocumulus – Puffy, patchy look with spaces.
• Cirrostratus – light gray or white, thin, covers most
of the sky
• Cirrus – Thin wispy and feathery appearance.
HIGH ALTITUDE CLOUDS
CIRRUS CLOUD:
The most common form of high-
level clouds are thin and often
wispy cirrus clouds. Typically
found at heights greater than
20,000 feet (6,000 meters), cirrus
clouds are composed of ice
crystals that originate from the
freezing of super cooled water
droplets. Cirrus generally occur in
fair weather and point in the
direction of air movement at their
elevation.
MIDDLE ALTITUDE CLOUD:
• Altocumulus – Puffy, patchy look with spaces.
• Altostratus – Light gray and uniform in
appearance. Cover most of the sky.
LOW ATITUDE CLOUDS:

Cumulus Cloud: Stratus Cloud:


Cumulus clouds are clouds which Stratus clouds are low-level clouds
have flat bases and are often characterized by horizontal
described as "puffy", "cotton-like" layering with a uniform base, as
or "fluffy" in appearance. Their opposed to convective or
name derives from the Latin cumuliform clouds that are
cumulo-, meaning heap or pile. formed by rising thermals
STRATOCUMULUS:
A stratocumulus cloud belongs to a
genus-type of clouds characterized by
large dark, rounded masses, usually in
groups, lines, or waves, the individual
elements being larger than those in
altocumulus, and the whole being at a
lower height, usually below 2,000
meters.
NIMBOSTRATUS:
A nimbostratus cloud or nimbostratus
is a low, gray, often dark, amorphous,
nearly uniform cloud that usually
produces continuous rain, snow, or
sleet and no lightning or thunder.
CUMULONIMBOS CLOUD:
Cumulonimbus is a dense, towering vertical cloud,
forming from water vapor carried by powerful
upward air currents. If observed during a storm,
these clouds may be referred to as thunderheads.
Cumulonimbus can form alone, in clusters, or
along cold front squall lines.
THANK YOU!

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