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EEOS 350: Quantitative hydrogeology
Lecture 3
Precipitation processes
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Business
• 10 undergrads, 3 grads successfully enrolled in class
• Everybody have a text book in hand or on order???
Errata: The hard cover version may not have as many errors corrected as the softcover version. Go through your text and make corrections.
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Field trip to Nantucket Island
• Proposed date: Nov 9-11 (Fri-Sun, you have Mon off)
• Proposed schedule: leave Friday afternoon or evening– “slow” ferry leaves Hyannis at 2:45pm (arrives
5pm) and 8:00pm (arrives 10:15pm).– All you need to do is bring clothes, etc, and
money for food.– Leave UMB at 12:30pm or 5:30pm.
I would prefer the earlier ferry….
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Proposed schedule
• Fri evening: Dinner and settle in • Sat morning: Tour field site • Later Sat morning through Sat afternoon:
collect field data, develop piezometric map, perform single well tests.
• Sat evening: have fun!• Sun morning: aquifer pumping test• Sun at 5:30pm: leave Nantucket, arrive
Hyannis 7:45pm, arrive UMB 9:30pm.
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Computing an annual water balance for the Lamprey River
Q
P
Watershed area =212 mi2
Catchment area forstream gage atPackers Fall =183 mi2
Precipitation gageat Durham.
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Water balance data• Annual precipitation from the Durham NH rain
gage.– Dimensions: [L/T]– Units: inches per year (in/yr)
• Streamflow from the USGS gage at Newmarket.– Dimension: [L3/T]– Units: cubic feet per second (cfs).
all terms in the water balance must be in the same dimensions and units!! Now what?
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Water balance computations
• All water balance terms should be in [L3/T]• Time step is annual (by definition of our
problem), so time unit = year.• Typical volume unit = ft3 or m3 or km3.
– How do we convert Q from ft3/sec to ft3/yr?– How do we convert P from in/yr to ft3/yr?
• First, let’s compute long-term average annual values for P & Q.
Lamprey_P&Q.xls
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Precipitation processes
• Why does it rain sometimes and not others?• Why does it rain at all?• How do you know when it’s raining?
– Is there a difference between mist, drizzle and rain?
• How do we measure rain?
Sources for this section: - Physical Hydrology, S. Lawrence Dingman, Prentice
Hall, 1994.- University of Illinois, WW2010 (WeatherWorld 2010) (
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml)
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Some physical quantities
• Pressure: force applied per unit area (dimensions F/L2 or M/LT2). Typical units: psi, Pa, inHg (why inHg?)
Standard air pressure = 14.7 psi or 101.3 bars or 1013.25 millibars or 29.92 in Hg
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Some physical quantities
• Partial Pressure: The pressure exerted by a particular gas within a mixture of gases.
• Vapor pressure,ev: The partial pressure of water vapor over a liquid, measured at equllibrium. Dependent on temperature…why?
• Saturated vapor pressure, esat: Maximum vapor pressure at a given temperature.
• Relative humidity, RH: the ratio of measured vapor pressure to saturated vapor pressure. Typically reported as percent. Dimensions?
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Estimating vapor pressure
100
3.237
3.17exp11.6)(
sat
v
sat
ssatv
e
eRH
T
TTe
Tee
Vapor pressure from an evaporating surface (i.e, lake orwet soil) is a function of the surface temperature, Ts
where Ts is in °C. esat can be approximated by
Relative humidity is simply the percent of saturation.
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What is the dew point?
• The dew point is the temperature to which the air must be cooled (at constant pressure) in order to reach it’s saturated vapor pressure, i.e., the relative humidity =100%.
• What happens on a hot muggy summer day, when the temperature cools off at night?
• Gets very uncomfortable. Why?• Water droplets form on grass (dew). Why?
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Phase changes
• Evaporation: water changes from liquid phase to vapor phase. Requires energy input, is a cooling process. Why?
• Condensation: water changes from vapor phase to liquid phase. Outputs energy.– What are the implications with respect to
condensation in the atmosphere?
Latent heat of vaporization of water = 2260 kJ.kg-1. It takes 2260 kJ of energy to convert one kg of water from liquid to vapor. By the same token, 2260 kJ of energy is given off when one kg of water condenses.
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Adiabatic process
• Cooling or heating due solely to pressure changehttp://buphy.bu.edu/~duffy/semester1/c27_process_adiabatic_sim.html
• As a packet of air containing a set amount of water vapor rises, it expands and cools.
• At some point, it will reach the dew point, and water vapor will condense clouds!
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How does precipitation occur?
1. Need to cool a moist air mass to its dew point.
need some form of uplift.- convection- convergence- orographic- frontal- cyclonic
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/wtr.rxml
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How does precipitation occur?
2. Water vapor condenses to form water droplets.
Need condensation nucleii, else the droplets won’t form.
Water is a “wetting fluid”, it prefers to stick to solid surfaces rather than air. So, the presence of condensation nuclei will promote droplet formation.- Dust- Smoke- Sea salt- Particulates of any kind
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Why are raindrops round?Because of surface tension. Hydrogen bonds between water molecules are stronger thanbonds to air. Within drop, tension is equal all around. On surface of drop, tension pulls inward towards other molecules.
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How does precipitation occur?
3. Droplet growth Needs enough tiny droplets for coalescence Need enough larger droplets for collisions OR need temperature to be below freezing
to cause ice crystal growth.
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CLOUD DROPLET: 100m
UPDRAFT6.5 M/SEC
AS THE DROPLET GOES UP WITH THE UPDRAFTIT GROWS LARGER
THROUGH COALESCENCE
CLOUD DROPLET1000 m
AS THE DROPLET FALLS IT COLLIDES WITH OTHER
DROPLETS;THUS,GROWING
LARGER
Raindrop5000 umHow big can raindrops get?
http://www.shorstmeyer.com/wxfaqs/float/dropdeform.html
Coalescence and collision
RAINDROP 5000 m
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How does precipitation occur?
4. Need a source of moisture.
the amount of water vapor present will not create a rain event. Need a continuous influx of moist air.
Cold air masses tend to be dry. Warm air masses tend to be moist.
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When is it rain and when is it not?
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SURFACE
5,000FT ABOVE THE SURFACE
3,000FT ABOVE THE SURFACE
FREEZING LEVEL1,000FT ABOVE THE SURFACE
INVERSION (RISE IN TEMPERATURE WITH HEIGHT)
TOO SHALLOW FOR RAIN TO FREEZE
32
40
47º
28
Droplet falls from cloud
Droplet falls through a shallow freezing layer
Droplet freezes on contact with surface
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The Ice Storm of 1998• Ontario Canada
through SE Maine• 25 people died• Millions of trees
damaged• 4 million without power
(after three weeks, 700,000 still without power)
• $2 billion in Quebec, $4-6 billion in US
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Precipitation vs elevation
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How is rainfall/snowfall measured?
• Cumulative measurements:– Measured cumulative rainfall– Manual reading required– Tough, reliable, cheap
• Incremental measurements (requires a data logger):– Weighing gages– Tipping buckets– Optical
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Rain gage placement
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Errors in rainfall measurement
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Windshields