Lecture 5: Introduction to cloud formation and convection in the atmosphere

UPDATE: I'm making materials available for all of my lectures on my website (melstrong.org) for either those bored folks stuck at home due to the virus or teachers looking for online content. For this lecture I have an assignment where one tries to determine where clouds form in the atmosphere as well as a copy of the paper I am using in this lecture to determine if clouds are present or not. In this lecture we will go over the basics of how cumuloform clouds are created by convection cells. We will go over lapse rates and sketch out where clouds would form given the atmospheric conditions. This was originally part of the Blue Planet lecture series at the University of New Mexico. If you are interested in weather, this lecture is now part of my "weather short course" playlist, where there are another ~15 videos similar to this one.