The same cloud precipitates snow on a mountain and rain in the nearby valley. Does the Bergeron process or the collision-coalescence theory best describe the process causing precipitation from that cloud?

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Keegan

11 September, 16:40

The same cloud precipitates snow on a mountain and rain in the nearby valley. Does the Bergeron process or the collision-coalescence theory best describe the process causing precipitation from that cloud?

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Fred · Answer 1

Bergeron process

Explanation:

This is a process when precipitate is formed in mixed cloud of temperature below freezing because equilibrium pressure of water vapour with respect to ice is less compared to that of liquid water.