Precipitation formation in a mountainous coast region

Per B. Storebö

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v20i2.10004

Precipitation formation in a mountainous coast region

Tellus

Volume 20 (1968): Issue 2

By: Per B. Storebö

Open Access

|Jan 1968

Abstract

Nuclear bomb debris particles appearing in world-wide fallout act as excellent condensation nuclei, and this effect has been utilized for tracer studies of extensive precipitation systems. Synoptic type and climatological type samples have been examined, and the results strongly indicate that raindrop scavenging of low-level clouds, which have undergone little lifting, is an important mechanism in precipitation formation. For sea-level rain in western Norway a mean cloud rise after saturation of the order of 300 metres is indicated.

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