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    Humidity refers to the amount of water vapor in the air. It varies significantly and influences climate and weather. Humidity is measured using various scales and types. Water continuously cycles between the atmosphere, oceans, and land through processes like evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. When air reaches a level of saturation, water condenses and falls as precipitation in forms like rain, snow, or hail. The type of precipitation depends on atmospheric conditions.

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    Humidity refers to the amount of water vapor in the air. It varies significantly and influences climate and weather. Humidity is measured using various scales and types. Water continuously cycles between the atmosphere, oceans, and land through processes like evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. When air reaches a level of saturation, water condenses and falls as precipitation in forms like rain, snow, or hail. The type of precipitation depends on atmospheric conditions.

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    Humidity refers to the amount of water vapor in the air. It varies significantly and influences climate and weather. Humidity is measured using various scales and types. Water continuously cycles between the atmosphere, oceans, and land through processes like evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. When air reaches a level of saturation, water condenses and falls as precipitation in forms like rain, snow, or hail. The type of precipitation depends on atmospheric conditions.

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    Humidity refers to the amount of water vapor in the air. It varies significantly and influences climate and weather. Humidity is measured using various scales and types. Water continuously cycles between the atmosphere, oceans, and land through processes like evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. When air reaches a level of saturation, water condenses and falls as precipitation in forms like rain, snow, or hail. The type of precipitation depends on atmospheric conditions.

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    Humidity

    • Humidity, the amount of


    water vapour in the air. It is
    the most variable
    characteristic of the
    atmosphere and constitutes a
    major factor in climate and
    weather.
    HUMIDITY
    • Moisture continuously enters and leaves the atmosphere.
    • When present in air, it gives air a different character.
    • The process by which water vapour enters the atmosphere on heating
    is knowns as evaporation.
    • The process by which it again forms water droplets on cooling is
    known as condensation.
    • The process by which the droplets fall to ground in liquid ,solid or
    frozen form is known as precipitation.
    • The amount of water vapour present in air is known as humidity.
    HUMIDITY
    • The total volume of water in the • Vapour is the gaseous state of
    oceans and seas is constant. water.
    • This because all the water that • A certain amount of energy is
    evaporates from the earth’s required to change water into water
    water bodies is eventually vapour.
    returned to it directly by the • Heating of water over oceans, lakes
    process of condensation and and rivers causes water to
    precipitation and indirectly by evaporates.
    stream and overflow from land • Generally 600 calories of heat is
    surfaces. required to change one gram of
    liquid water into its vaporous state.
    Factors Favoring evaporation
    Types of humidity
    HUMIDITY
    Types of humidity
    HUMIDITY
    HUMIDITY
    Types of humidity
    MEASURING OF HUMIDITY
    MEASURING OF HUMIDITY
    CONDENSATION
    • Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from
    the gas phase into the liquid phase, and is the reverse of
    vaporization. The word most often refers to the water cycle. It
    can also be defined as the change in the state of water vapor to
    liquid water when in contact with a liquid or solid surface or
    cloud condensation nuclei within the atmosphere. When the
    transition happens from the gaseous phase into the solid phase
    directly, the change is called deposition.
    PRECIPATION
    • In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of
    atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity from clouds.
    • The main forms of precipitation include-
    • drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail.
    • Precipitation occurs when a portion of the atmosphere becomes
    saturated with water vapor (reaching 100% relative humidity), so
    that the water condenses and "precipitates" or falls.
    • Thus, fog and mist are not precipitation but colloids, because the
    water vapor does not condense sufficiently to precipitate.
    FORMS OF PRECIPIATION
    Types of rainfall
    • Convectional Rainfall – Major Characteristics
    • The air on getting heated becomes light and rises
    in convection currents.
    • As the air rises, it expands and drops the
    temperature and subsequently, condensation
    takes place and cumulus clouds are formed.
    • Heavy rainfall with lightning and thunder takes
    place which does not last long.
    • Such rain is usually in the summer or the hotter
    part of the day.
    • This type of rainfall generally takes place in the
    equatorial regions and internal parts of the
    continents, predominantly in the northern
    hemisphere.
    • This rainfall is usually associated with hail and
    graupel
    TYPES OF RAINFALL
    • Orographic Rainfall – Major Characteristics
    • When the saturated air mass comes across a
    mountain, it is forced to rise.
    • The rising air expands, eventually, the
    temperature falls, and the moisture gets
    condensed.
    • The principal characteristic of this type of rain is
    that the windward slopes get more rainfall.
    • After giving rain on the windward side, when
    these winds reach the other slope, they drop
    away, and their temperature increases. Then
    their ability to take in moisture increases and
    hence, these leeward slopes remain dry and
    rainless.
    • The region situated on the leeward side is known
    as the rain-shadow area.
    Types of Rainfall
    • Cyclonic Rainfall – Major Characteristics
    • Cyclonic activity causes cyclonic rain and it
    occurs along the fronts of the cyclone.
    • When two masses of air of unlike density,
    temperature, and humidity meet then it is formed.
    • The layer that separates them is known as the
    front.
    • A warm front and the cold front are the two parts
    of the front.
    • At the warm front, the warm lighter wind
    increases slightly over the heavier cold air.
    • As the warm air rises, it cools, and the moisture
    present in it condenses to form clouds
    • This rain falls gradually for a few hours to a few
    days.

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