how clouds converted into water?
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Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. This can happen in three ways.\n\n1. The air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface or a surface that is cooling by radiation, or the air is cooled by adiabatic expansion (rising). This can happen\n\nalong warm and cold fronts (frontal lift), \nwhere air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift), \nby the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating), \nwhen warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water. \n2. Clouds can be formed when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails, and Arctic sea smoke.\n\n3. The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation.\n\nThe water in a typical cloud can have a mass of up to several million tonnes. However the volume of a cloud is correspondingly high, and the net density of water vapor is actually low enough that air currents below and within the cloud are capable of keeping small droplets suspended. As well, conditions inside a cloud are not static: water droplets are constantly forming and re-evaporating. A typical cloud droplet has a radius on the order of 1 x 10-5 m and a terminal velocity of about 1-2 cm/s. This give these droplets plenty of time to re-evaporate as they fall into in the warmer air beneath the cloud.\n\nMost water droplets are formed when water vapor condenses around a condensation nucleus, a tiny particle of smoke, dust, ash, or salt. In supersaturated conditions, water droplets may act as condensation nuclei.\n\nWater droplets large enough to fall to the ground are produced in two ways. The most important is through the Bergeron Process, theorized by Tor Bergeron, in which supercooled water droplets and ice crystals in a cloud interact to produce the rapid growth of ice crystals, which precipitate from the cloud and melt as they fall. This process typically takes place in clouds with tops cooler than -15°C. The second most important process is the collision and wake capture process, occurring in clouds with warmer tops, in which the collision of rising and falling water droplets produces larger and larger droplets, which are eventually heavy enough to overcome air currents in the cloud and the updraft beneath it and fall as rain. As a droplet falls through the smaller droplets which surround it, it produces a "wake" which draws some of the smaller droplets into collisions, thus perpetuating the process. This method of raindrop production is the primary mechanism in low stratiform clouds and small cumulus clouds in trade winds and tropical regions, and produces raindrops of several millimeters diameter.\n\n \nThis wave cloud pattern formed off of the Île Amsterdam in the far southern Indian Ocean.The actual form of cloud created depends on the strength of the uplift and on air stability. In unstable conditions convection dominates, creating vertically developed clouds. Stable air produces horizontally homogeneous clouds. Frontal uplift creates various cloud forms depending on the composition of the front (ana-type or kata-type warm or cold front). Orographic uplift also creates variable cloud forms depending on air stability, although cap cloud and wave clouds are specific to orographic clouds.
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This has to do w/ the way it forms in clouds.\n\nAs warm moist air rises, it will expand & cool. When it reaches the dew point, it will condense on particulates in the air such as pollen, dust, salts, pollution, etc. This is the formation of a cloud.\n\nThe condensation nuclei described above is the primary source for the shape of the raindrop that may eventually form from the cloud.\n\nAs the water droplets bump into each other, they will begin to stick, growing larger & larger.\n\nWhen wind currents can no longer hold up the droplets, gravity wins the tug-of-war & the droplet will fall.\n\nSome people mistakenly believe that raindrops are "teardrop" shaped. This is not true. They are spherical as they fall through the atmosphere. That is until they hit something.
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Well I spend some time googling for it but I didn't find any research on the topic.\n\nHowever, logicaly, a water spout would suck up the water as salt water since its a mechanical function, not an evaporative one.\n\nThat said, there is the concept of seeding a cloud with salt to cause rain to form.  It seems unlikely however that a salt in solution would come out of solution in the cloud, however maybe it could be MUCH diluted since most of a cloud would be freshwater.\n\nWith evaporation, the salt remains in the ocean.  In the case of the spout, the salt water is picked up and the returns down as salt water.\n\nThe logic here is that the salt HAS to return back to the earth somehow.
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You can observe this yourself by breathing on a mirror. As the condensation evaporates from the mirror, you have completed the water cycle. Water evaporates into the atmosphere from the ocean, lakes, rivers, and from soil and plants, and even from your skin and breath. When the air reaches saturation (100% humidity) due to cooling or changes in atmospheric pressure (or both) the water condenses  from vapor to liquid (or solid) and falls to earth as rain, snow, sleet, hail, or maybe only as dew. This water may then form streams and rivers and return to the ocean where it may evaporate again into the atmosphere or it may sink into the earth where it becomes groundwater that may take many thousands of years to emerge again, or may be pumped to the surface from a well and used for drinking water or irrigation. It is a continuous cycle that may take only seconds or may take thousands of years to complete the cycle depending on the path of the water.   \n\nWhy do I get the feeling I'm answering your homework question? Now if you'd asked about delta O18 (a heavy isotope of oxygen) I could have told you how the water cycle concentrates water composed of hydrogen and heavy oxygen atoms and how this is used to study paleoclimates using ice cores and sea shells. Have a good day.
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Clouds are mists of water droplets that have condensed out of water vapour at "dewpoint", which is dependent on temperature, pressure, and humidity.\n\nThere is no intelligence or knowing involved.\n\nClouds don't fly, they are blown by the wind.
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Another individual stated that the clouds act as a blanked and keept the earth warm.  That is an accurate answer. So, let's look a little deeper.\n\nFirst, clouds are the formations of moisture.  The thicker the clouds, the more moisture that is in them. \n\nNext, remember that heat rises.  During the day, the earth is warmed.  It cools at night.  The heat rises into the air.\n\nWater has a high specific heat, meaning a large amount of energy is needed to heat the water.  Likewise, it take a long period of time to cool the water.\n\nAs the clouds cover the earth, they are insulating the land.  Thus when the heat rises, it hits the clouds creating a barrier.  Thus the rate of cooling is slower than when there is not any cloud cover.\n\nPlease note there are exceptions to the rule.  We've all seen or heard of snowstorms coming in and the air is cooling very quickly.  But the general rule is that on a cloudy winter night, the temperature will not drop as low as if there were no clouds.  And you are less likely to scrape frost from your windshield.
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the water cycle is what it says it is,the cycle water goes through.there has always been the same amount of water in the earth at all times.basically it is recycled.water from bodies of water is evaporated and rises into the atmosphere.it isnt all H2O.it contains all of the impurities and other elements also.the partcles form clouds and when they get heavy enuogh it rains.but it isnt just rain from the beginning.as it falls ,it starts out as frozen water(snow)and as it falls toward the earth,it melts into raindrops.i hope this helps.
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Clouds are tiny droplets of water that have condensed on condensation nuclei such as pollen, dust, ash, & pollution in the troposphere.\n\nB/c they are very tiny and independant of each other, they tend to be suspended. This is due to various things such as updrafts, winds, etc. They are very lightweight. Only when they begin to start growing in size will gravity take over & they start to fall as rain.
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The water droplets are very tiny and present a lot of surface area (compared to their volume) to the air. Rapid evaporation from the surface of the droplets cools them sufficiently to freeze.
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Because it takes a tremendous volume of water to rise the oceans even by inches and much of the water will cycle, evaporating, forming clouds and comming back down as rain, with part of that being absorbed drunken by plants and other life forms.
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In the clouds as water vapor.
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rain comes from clouds. clouds are actually water vapour floating in air. when they become really condensed due to a drop in temperature then they form large drop of water which cant stay afloat and so rain happens.
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It tends to be over land, because precipitation forms because of water saturation of the atmosphere; this doesn't really change too much on the open ocean.  But inland, there is a loss of water saturation, therefore clouds containing saturated water will tend to precipitate water (rain).
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Clouds are formed when warm moisture laden air is forced upwards either by a physical obstruction such as a hill/mountain or by being heated by the ground/sun.\nAs it rises it cools, and cold air can hold less moisture than warm air, so the vapour condenses out into droplets that form our clouds.\n\nFog is caused when moisture laden air is cooled by contact with the ground or water, it gets colder and colder until any moisture condenses out.  Fog forms as a layer as the air above it tends to be warmer due to rflected heat from the sun and also becauseof the lack of wind to stir the two layers together.  This is often referred to as an inversion.
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Just the water evaporates leaving behind the salt.  Some places along the Mediterranean they have a process that the salt water goes though leaving behind the salt that we use.  They have several locks that the salt water drain from and finally ends up as a pile of salt to be processed.\nOh by the way clouds don't melt.  The water vapors get heavy until they're so heavy the the water drop as rain droplets.No they do not mix into a different form of water.\nNO! NO! NO! to all the rest of your question.\nChuck
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cirrus, stratus, and cumulus. however, those are just the three most basic forms of clouds. you have cumulonimbus, for example, which are thunderstorm clouds that form from cumulus clouds. does that help or did i confuse you more????????
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High up in the atmosphere where rain clouds form, the temperature is freezing cold. At these aktltitudes the water can freeze. If there is turbulance a drop of water can freeze and be caught in an updraft. A layer of water can form around the frozen rain drop, freezing too. Thti small ice ball falls within the cloud and gets caught up in another up draft. If this continues a piece of hail is produced. It becomes too heavy to stay up and falls to the ground.\n\nIn still air the water is  in vapor form and as the temperature falls below freezing point, molecules of water coalesse and form crystals. If the air is freezing cold all the way to the ground, these crystals fall as snow. If the temperature is slightly above freezing point these crystals melt and form sleet.