Precipitation is a process that causes dissolved substances to separate from a solution as a solid. The resulting solid is referred to as a precipitate. In terms of physical processes, precipitation is the opposite of dissolution. Precipitation also...

Precipitation refers to the deposition of atmospheric moisture from the atmosphere to the surface of ecosystems. Precipitation can occur as liquid rain, solid snow, or hail. In addition, vapor-phase water in the atmosphere can directly condense or...

Precipitation is water in either solid or liquid form that falls from Earth's atmosphere. Major forms of precipitation include rain, snow, and hail. When air is lifted in the atmosphere, it expands and cools. Cool air cannot hold as much water...

This article is about the meteorological term. For the chemistry term, see Precipitation (chemistry). In meteorology, precipitation (also known as one class of hydrometeors, which are atmospheric water phenomena) is any product of the...

ABSTRACT Climate studies of precipitation have generally focused on daily or longer time scales of precipitation accumulation. The main objective of this work was to identify the precipitation characteristics of storms based on 15-min precipitation data, including storm total precipitation, storm duration, mean...

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As the federal government prepares to send hundreds of millions of dollars to farmers in Plains states deemed to have suffered from an ongoing drought, critics say the region is not as dry as some claim.Kansas farmers and ranchers could get $121 million of the...

It's going to be Made in China weather for the Beijing Olympics next year with officials putting in place plans to modify climatic conditions. China's vaulting ambitions on the world stage have propelled it to engage in feats of engineering excess that were hitherto considered...