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The amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is added or withdrawn due to evaporation and condensation respectively. Evaporation Evaporation is a process by which water is…

After condensation the water vapour or the moisture in the atmosphere takes one of thefollowing forms — dew, frost, fog and clouds. Forms of condensation can be…

Cloud is a mass of minute water droplets or tiny crystals of ice formed by the condensation of the water vapour in free air at considerable elevations….

On the basis of origin, rainfall may be classified into three main types – the convectional, orographic or relief and the cyclonic or frontal. Convectional Rainfall The,…

Different places on the earth’s surface receive different amounts of rainfall in a year and that too in different seasons. General variation in rainfall In general, as…

Precipitation is any form of water particle, whether liquid or solid, that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground. The process of continuous condensation in free…

The actual global pattern of atmospheric circulation is much more complicated than a direct flow between the equator and poles. Instead of one large circulation in each…

What is a Heat Dome? A heat dome is an area of high pressure that remains over a region like a lid on a pot, trapping heat….

The weight of a column of air contained in a unit area from the mean sea level to the top of the atmosphere is called the atmospheric…