Condensation

What is it? 

This process is like the opposite of evaporation. This is a process the water vapor (Clouds: A form of water that we can see) in the air change into liquid state. This process is part of the water cycle because it is responsible for the recreation of the clouds. The clouds create precipitation  which is the water that is realized from the cloud in the form of rain After turning into liquid state the water,snow,sleet or hail (which the last three have similarities and not much a difference). This is a primary route were the water has to return to the earth surface which is part of the water cycle.

                           They are part of precipitation because they are forms of precipitation

The atmosphere must be fully saturated before condensation takes place. In other words the maximum amount of pressure on the vapor must be reached. When this happens the vapor has no choice but to leave the atmosphere by changing form to a liquid state. Dew point is the temperature in which this process occurs.

Dew point is the temperature in which the air must cooled in the atmosphere before before becoming saturated into water vapor (cloud) form. The dew point varies meaning differs in size,degree, temp etc day to day and location to location depending on both the temperature and amount of water in the air.

Clouds forms because when air rises it cools the water which condenses out into forming clouds

Example:



It is easy to notice condensation. One way you can notice it is when you look up in the sky and the clouds are grey.
 


That means its in the process of condensation where it will turn into a liquid state, to have water droplets fall underground known as rain. But this process is called precipitation.

Precipitation is when the water that is condensed becomes sufficient (enough) that the water droplets are heavy enough to fall back  on the earth surface.  A rain drop is million times larger then an individual water droplet from the clouds.

They are three types of clouds. Cirriform clouds, Stratiform clouds, and Cumuliform clouds.

These clouds change form by later changing to one of the other types

It is said and proven that condensation often takes place around particles even the dusty ones depending on their weather condition. e.g bacteria , smoke, salt etc. They will combine and form cloud droplets next turning into clouds.




Condensation could be seen happening underground level. That's where it creates a fog. A fog forms when the difference between the air temperature and dew point is less then 2.5 c.  It relates to condensation because when fog starts to occur the water vapor condense into small tiny liquid water droplets. So basically they is no difference between a fog and cloud . A fog is just a cloud that forms underground. like in the picture below




They are 5 types of fogs

• Upslope fog
• Evaporating fog
• Advection fog
• Radiation fog
• Valley fog

3 Facts about Condensation

• Most clouds do not form precipitation

• The condensation process provides the main source of water for a variety of both fauna and flora.

• Condensation happens every day 

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