Sublimation, amounts of water in clouds, some mistakes in Jack Williams weather book duly notes
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Jack Williams chapter 5 stuff
Posted in Meteorology, Weather books, tagged Jack Williams' Weather Book, relative humidity, sublimation on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phase change
Posted in Meteorology, Weather books, tagged Jack Williams' Weather Book, phase change on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It takes almost as much energy to make the phase change from ice to water as to heat the water all the way from there to the boiling point. And then water soaks up five times as much energy going from “hot” to “steam” as it does going from ice-cold to simmering hot. Phase change involves lots of energy.