Chapter 17 Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation Word List:

Absolute Instability Absolute stability Adiabatic temperature change Advection fog Bergeron process Calorie Cloud Cloud of vertical development Collision-coalescence process Condensation Condensation nuclei Conditional instability Convergence Cumulus Deposition Dew-point temperature Dry adiabatic rate

Evaporation Fog Freezing nuclei Front Frontal fog Frontal wedging Glaze Hail High cloud Humidity Hygrometer Hygroscopic nuclei Latent heat Localized convective lifting Low cloud Middle cloud Mixing ratio Orographic lifting parcel

Precipitation fog Psychrometer Radiation fog Rain Rain shadow desert Relative humidity Rinse Saturation Sleet Snow Stable air Steam fog Stratus Sublimation Supercooled Supersaturated Unstable air Upslope fog Vapor pressure Wet adiabatic rate