The Physical Environment

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Atmospheric Moisture

Looking Back: Phase Changes of Water

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1. What are the requirements for evaporation?

2. Define specific humidity, vapor pressure, dew point temperature, and relative humidity.

3. What are the requirements for condensation?

4. List and define the four uplift mechanism that create saturated conditions.

5. What is a fog?

 

 

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For Citation: Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.
2006. Date visited.  http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/title_page.html

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Michael Ritter (tpeauthor@mac.com)
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