Why Are There Clouds?

Thanks to the awesome science YouTube channel @animalogic for supporting this video. Check them out! LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Lifting Condensation Level (LCL): The altitude at which the water vapor in rising air begins to condense - Adiabatic Cooling: describes the process by which an air blob cools as it rises (and as air pressure drops) - Latent heat: the energy absorbed by water molecules during evaporation and released during condensation - Energy of Vaporization: The amount of energy it takes for a liquid to evaporate - Ideal Gas Law: The rule about how a volume of gas at a constant temperature and pressure always has the same number of molecules - Supercell: A really big thunderstorm. Like, the biggest. CREDITS ********* Emily Elert | Script Writer & Narrator Kate Yoshida | Script Editor Ever Salazar | Illustration and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music Our staff: Alex Reich, Peter Reich, Emily Elert, Ever Salazar, Kate Yoshida, and Henry Reich MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Thanks also to our Patreon patrons: - @AntoineCoeur - Jeff Straathof - Mark - facebook.com/maarten.bremer - Emil Kampp - @TodayIFoundOut1 And our Subbable Sponsors: - Joseph Perry - @visticuffs 3 - Austin Spafford - @WY_Tang - Moti Lieberman - www.youtube.com/user/thelingspace/ - Candice Blodgett - Ryan Brown - John Harman (from Dayton, OH)! - http://www.givewell.org/ - @rbairwell - Matt Chaput - Nicklas Ulvnäs - Merry Beeman - James Fleming - http://robot.wpi.edu/ - @BryLikeDaCheese - Brandon Heanssler - http://bhcreates.com/ - Damien Bargiacchi - http://bccancerfoundation.com/ OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | https://youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | https://twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | https://instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | https://facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | https://minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Abraham. F.F. (1974) Homogeneous Nucleation Theory: The Pretransition Theory of Vapor Condensation. Academic Press http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Kr0YJs7WPl8C&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=water+vapor+condensation&ots=rczn1FI2Va&sig=uzYFuWSXR6cq6Yqo1-f4PcNcO4A#v=onepage&q=galaxy&f=false Cameron Balloons (Accessed February 2015) Web Resource http://www.cameronballoons.com/atype.html Grützun, V. (Accessed February 2015) Cloud Microphysics Part I. Lecture Notes. Web Resource http://www.mi.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/staff/gruetzun/Teaching/IMPRS_Course/imprs-course_20111205-09.pdf Grützun, V., personal communication, 2015 Houze, R.A., Jr. (2014) Cloud Dynamics. Academic Press. eBook https://books.google.com/books?id=GXEpAgAAQBAJ Mental Floss (Accessed February 2015 ) How Much Does a Cloud Weigh? Web Resource http://mentalfloss.com/article/49786/how-much-does-cloud-weigh Pruppacher, H.R., Klett, J.D. (2010) Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation. eBook Springer Science & Business Media, Jun 25, 2010. https://books.google.com/books?id=0MURkyjuoGMC The Weather Window (Accessed March 2015) Web Resource http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Latent-Heat