EVAPORATION AND CONDENSATION
Condensation takes place:
Dew
Frost
Fog and Mist
Clouds
Cirrus
Cumulus
Stratus
Nimbus
A combination of these four basic types can give rise to the following types of clouds: high clouds – cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus; middle clouds – altostratus and altocumulus; low clouds – stratocumulus and nimbostratus and clouds with extensive vertical development – cumulus and cumulonimbus
Precipitation
Types of Rainfall
On the basis of origin, rainfall may be classified into three main types – the convectional, orographic or relief and the cyclonic or frontal.
Convectional Rain
Orographic Rain
Cyclonic Rain already covered in last chapter
World Distribution of Rainfall
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