• Condensation: Requirements for Cloud Formation
• Formation of Clouds vs. Fogs
• Adiabatic Expansion/Compression and Air Parcel Motion
• Rising Air Parcels and Lifting Condensation Level (LCL)
• States of Equilibrium
• Lapse Rate
• Dry and Moist Adiabatic Processes and Lapse Rates
• Atmospheric Stability
• Absolute vs. Conditional (In)stability
• Temperature Inversions
• Physical Lifting Mechanisms for Cloud Formation
• Parcel Buoyancy and Cloud Formation by Convection
• Atmospheric Stability vs. Cloud Shape
• Practical Examples of Buoyant Air Parcels in Stable Atmospheres and the Destabilization of Atmospheres by Ground Heating

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