I need full answer with full explanation please Describe, analyses and interpret

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I need full answer with full explanation please

Describe, analyses and interpret scientific information including texts, tables, graphs, diagrams and figures, numerical and mathematical descriptions, computer-based media Process and present data using appropriate techniques and methods of presentation (including graph plotting). This question assesses your understanding of parts of Understanding the weather Chapters 2 and 3. Figure 1 is a photograph of a cloudscape taken in the early afternoon on 8th August on a plateau near Longyearbyen, Svalbard (sometimes known as Spitzbergen). Identify- the main cloud type/s visible in the image explaining how you reached your conclusion. Note that an observer did not identify any active precipitation. (Guideline: one or two sentences.) Explain briefly the processes by which clouds form when moist air is uplifted (Guideline: two or three sentences.) In the afternoon of 8 August, the air temperature on the plateau where the photograph in Figure I was taken was recorded as -1 degree C and the wind speed as 11 kilometers per hour. Use Table 3.3 of Understanding the weather to estimate the apparent temperature that a person standing on this plateau near Longyearbyen would feel on the exposed skin of their face. State how you made your estimate. (Guideline: one or two sentences.) What is the Beaufort name for the wind speed experienced by the person mentioned in part (c) and how would the surface of the sea be likely to appear to them? (Guideline: one or two sentences.)

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(a) The main cloud types in the given figure are - Stratus and Stratocumulus.

First of all Svalbard has an Arctic weather and the clouds formed are low level clouds...since the given figure has a cloud which is nearly Uniform and is thick enough to prevent solar radiation...hence the cloud type is Stratus (meaning flat,layered and smooth)

Secondly there are some dark grey patches in the clouds meaning that some Stratocumulus cloud is also present which usually have gaps between them (Stratus=flattened, cumulus=heaped)

(b) Clouds are formed when air is saturated and can't hold anymore water vapour..let's explain this...

We have both water vapour and dust particles(or aerosols) around us constantly bumping into each other. When air is cooled, some water vapour sticks to the aerosols resulting in condensation..eventually bigger water droplets form around aerosol particles and these droplets combine together to form clouds.

Surface heating causes air to rise and as it rises,it cools and reducing temp. of air decreases its ability to hold water vapour so that condensation occures. louds are usually formed through condensation.

(c) and (d) - Given information is not enough to answer. More information needed...

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