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Pancake ice on the Rideau River:

Pancake ice on the Rideau River:

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Pancake ice on the Rideau River:

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  1. Pancake ice on the Rideau River: Pancake ice typically forms from accumulations of frazil ice in fast flowing water. The raised rims of the icy plates result from the swirling motion in the backwater of the falls and from the growing ice cakes randomly bumping into each other. These floating ice formations can range from several inches (4 cm) to several feet (1 m) across.

  2. Water source Water volume Water volume Percent of freshwater Percent of total water (in cubic miles) (in cubic kilometers) Oceans, Seas, & Bays 321,000,000 1,338,000,000 -- 96.5 Ice caps, Glaciers, 5,773,000 24,064,000 68.7 1.74 & Permanent Snow Ground water 5,614,000 23,400,000 -- 1.7 Fresh 2,526,000 10,530,000 30.1 0.76 Saline 3,088,000 12,870,000 -- 0.94 Soil Moisture 3,959 16,500 0.05 0.001 Ground Ice & Permafrost 71,970 300,000 0.86 0.022 Lakes 42,320 176,400 -- 0.013 Fresh 21,830 91,000 0.26 0.007 Saline 20,490 85,400 -- 0.006 Atmosphere 3,095 12,900 0.04 0.001 Swamp Water 2,752 11,470 0.03 0.0008 Rivers 509 2,120 0.006 0.0002 Biological Water 269 1,120 0.003 0.0001 Source: Igor Shiklomanov's chapter "World fresh water resources" in Peter H. Gleick (editor), 1993, Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources (Oxford University Press, New York).

  3. The Energy Balance

  4. Energy and Matter Interact The change in the state of a substance from a solid to a liquid form, or from a liquid to a gaseous form, (or vice versa) is called a Phase Change. Thermal Energy is involved in phase changes

  5. The unique and amazing properties of water Of all the substances on Earth water changes its temperature the least with the addition of a given amount of heat. Water is the only substance on Earth that is less dense as a solid than it is as a liquid. Water is most dense at ~4°C Thought exercise. What would the Earth be like if water was more dense as a solid than as a liquid?

  6. Quantifying Nature

  7. Energy stored as LATENT ENERGY (energy is “hidden” & not sensed) Energy released as SENIBLE HEAT (the energy can be sensed)

  8. In this graph, what’s happening to the energy in the portions where the graph is horizontal? It has to do with Sensible Heat (H) And Latent Heat (LE)

  9. Humidity • Relative Humidity • Saturation • Dew point • Expressions of Relative Humidity • Vapour pressure • Specific humidity

  10. Relative Humidity

  11. Relative Humidity

  12. Saturation vapour pressure: is the maximum possible water vapour as measured by the pressure it exerts Specific humidity: is the maximum amount of water vapour in a unit of air. Measured as water vapor per unit mass of air (g/kg)

  13. Measuring Humidity

  14. Forces acting on an air parcel

  15. Adiabatic lapse rate

  16. Adiabatic lapse rate Dry adiabatic lapse rate is a change of 1° C for every 100 metres of elevation gain. 1° C per 100 m Saturated adiabatic lapse rate occurs in an airmass that has reached its dew point (100 % relative humidity)and is a change of 0.5° C for every 100 metres of elevation gain

  17. Stable and unstable conditions

  18. Clouds and fog

  19. Clouds and fog

  20. Cloud types

  21. Altocumulus & Altostratus

  22. Cirrus & Cirrostratus

  23. Nimbus & Nimbostratus

  24. Cumulus & Cumulonimbus

  25. Formation of a cumulonimbus

  26. Fog • Advection fog • Evaporation fog • Upslope fog • Valley fog • Radiation fog • Rime fog • Ice-crystal fog

  27. Advection Fog

  28. Valley Fog

  29. Ice-crystal Fog

  30. Topographic effects on precipitation

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