How do the clouds dissipate?

cumulus humilis

The development of clouds it is slower, obviously, when the process that originates them stops taking place. But other factors may intervene to cause disappearances of water droplets or ice crystals from clouds such as air heating, precipitation and mixing with the drier surrounding air.

A cloud can be heated by absorption of solar or terrestrial radiation, but both phenomena are relatively weak compared to the adiabatic heating.

This is what can occur if the air in which the cloud is located is subsided. As the temperature of the air increases, its relative humidity drops and the air can become saturated; then, the cloud particles evaporate to become invisible water vapor.

La insolation it frequently causes the dissipation of clouds created by turbulence. If enough solar radiation penetrates to the ground, heating the air near the surface, the level of condensation of the mixture rises and, therefore, the base of the Stratus or Stratocumulus rises as well. Then, the thickness of the cloud limited by the reversal of turbulence decreases and the cloud eventually disappears completely.

The Good weather cumulus, which are formed on lands subjected to the influence of sunlight, are a diurnal phenomenon. They generally appear during the morning, reaching their maximum development in the course of the afternoon and disappear quickly when the soil cools down again at the end of the day.

The air surrounding a cloud is often unsaturated. The mixing of the cloud with this air can therefore give rise to relative humidities well below 100% and produce some evaporation in the cloud, which erodes and can dissipate.

More information - RH, The 'Morning Glory' cloud, impressive meteorological phenomenon


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