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Re: Meteorologists have never actually measured the comparative weight of moist air.

From Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Meteorologists have never actually measured the comparative weight of moist air.
Date 2016-02-21 10:22 +0100
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Dne 20/02/2016 v 23:59 Sam Wormley napsal(a):

>  > It is *lighter than air* and *triggers convection currents* that can
>  > lead to clouds.

While this is true,
the major cause of convection is thermal,
higher temperature causing lower density and buoyancy.
(There is also turbulent and orographic convection.)

Above the condensation level,
condensation makes the trick with lowering of adiabatic gradient,
as cooling of up-going air is slowed by the latent heat.

This is helping to keep the buoyancy of the up-going cloud parts,
typically in Cumulus and Cumulonimbus clouds,
forming those known cauliflower-like structures.

-- 
Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )

Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.

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