PRECIPITATION

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General term for all forms of moisture originating from clouds and falling to the ground

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Precipitation

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Precipitation happens when water falls down to the earth surface. This water might be ___ & ____

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Liquid or Solid State

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consists of waterdrops under 0.02-in. diameter

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Drizzle

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consists of drop usually greater than 0.02-in. diameter

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Rain

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is the ice coating formed when drizzle or rain freezes

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Glaze

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is frozen raindrops cool to the ice stage while falling through air at subfreezing temperatures.

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Leet

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precipitation in the form of Ice crystals resultung from sublimation

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Snow

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is made up of a number of ice crystals fused together.

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Snowflake

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is precipitation in the form of balls or lumps of ice over 0.2-in. diameter formed by alternative freezing and melting

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Hail

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Types of Precipitation

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Convective precipitation
Cyclonic precipitation
Orographic precipitation

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Forms of precipitation

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Snow
Snowflake
Hail

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is the interfere between two distinct air masses.

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Front

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is caused by natural rising of warmer, lighter air in colder, denser surroundings.

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Convective precipitation

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results from the lifting of air converging into a low-pressure area, or cyclone.

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Cyclonic precipitation

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results frok mechanical lifting over mountain barriers.

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Orographic precipitation

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is a large low pressure region with circular wind motion

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Cyclone

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Two types of Cyclone

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Tropical cyclones
Extra tropical cyclones

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are regions of high pressure, usually of harge areal extent. It cause clockwise wind circulation in the northerm hemisphere.

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Anticyclones

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is the amount of precipitation, the form of rain (water from clouds), that descends onto the surface of Earth

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Rainfall

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is falling snowflakes or snow crystals or also the accumulation of snow during a specified period of time.

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Snowfall

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is the simplest avareging method but can only be relied on small, flat areas.

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Arithmetic mean method

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is a graphical technique that considers the weights of each rain gages based on the relatice measurements of their respective area coverage.

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Thiessen polygon

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is also a graphical technique that involves drawing isohyets or contours that are equal to the respective rainfall gage over an area based on point measurements.

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Isohyetal method

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is used when the normal annual precipitation at each of the index stations is less or more than 10 percent of that for the station with the missing record.

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Normal ration method

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is defined as a change in the amount of precipitation that falls naturally in a certain location.

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Variation of precipitation

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where conditions are crucial for the formation of snowflakes

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Atmosphere

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the atmophere is below freezing (0 degrees Celcius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit)

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Supercooling

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These are microscopic particles, such as dust, pollen, or other solid particles

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Ice Nuclei

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when the air is holding more moisture than it can actually accmmodqte at a given temperature.

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Supersaturation

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When supersaturated air encounters an ice nucleus

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Deposition

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As the ice crystals grow, they start to consume surrounding water vapor

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Vapor Diffusion

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As rhe ice crustals fall through the atmosphere, they may collide woth other ice crystals

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Aggregation

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once the snowflake becomes too heavy for the updrafts in the atmosphere to support, it falls to the ground as snow.

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Precipitation

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it indicates the typical amount of snow that falls in a given period

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Average Snowfall

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A lower-than-average snowfall may indicate drier or milder conditions than usual.

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Below-average snowfall

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higher-than-average snowfall suggest wetter or colder conditions

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Above-average snowfall

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Examining the variability in snowfall data

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Snowfall Variability

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it suggests relatively consistent snowfall patterns from year to year.

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Low variability

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indicates significant fluctuations in snowfal amounts

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high variability

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measures how often snowfall events occur within a specific timeframe

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Snowfall Frequency