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• Lifting Condensation Level (LCL): The altitude at which the water vapor in rising air begins to condense
• Adiabatic Cooling: describes the process by which an air blob cools as it rises (and as air pressure drops)
• Latent heat: the energy absorbed by water molecules during evaporation and released during condensation
• Energy of Vaporization: The amount of energy it takes for a liquid to evaporate
• Ideal Gas Law: The rule about how a volume of gas at a constant temperature and pressure always has the same number of molecules
• Supercell: A really big thunderstorm. Like, the biggest.

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Cameron Balloons (Accessed February 2015) Web Resource http://www.cameronballoons.com/atype.html

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Grützun, V., personal communication, 2015

Houze, R.A., Jr. (2014) Cloud Dynamics. Academic Press. eBook https://books.google.com/books?id=GXEpAgAAQBAJ

Mental Floss (Accessed February 2015 ) How Much Does a Cloud Weigh? Web Resource http://mentalfloss.com/article/49786/how-much-does-cloud-weigh

Pruppacher, H.R., Klett, J.D. (2010) Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation. eBook Springer Science & Business Media, Jun 25, 2010. https://books.google.com/books?id=0MURkyjuoGMC

The Weather Window (Accessed March 2015) Web Resource http://weather.mailasail.com/Franks-Weather/Latent-Heat