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According to the USGS and NOAA, a 1km³ cumulus cloud would weigh about 2.21 billion pounds, or about 1,105 tons (US). The same volume of dry air weighs about 2.22 billion pounds, which is why clouds float. Because it is less dense than air, in truth, it doesn't "weigh" anything. It has volume. If you sucked all the water vapor out of the air and put it in a bucket, though, using the below chart as a guide and the fact that water is 1kg per liter, and one liter of water is 0.1 cubic meters, you'd have 12,900,000,000 liters of water, which is 12.9 trillion kg. (It's enough to cover the earth's 510,072,000 km² surface with about 25mm of water. Because the earth's average rain fall is about 1 meter, you can figure that all of this water vapor is recycled every nine or ten days.) So, to convert that metric to US tons and answer your question, all of that means that there is approximately more than 14.2 billion US tons of water vapor in the atmosphere.
Water sourceWater volume, in cubic milesWater volume, in cubic kilometersPercent of total freshwaterPercent of total waterAtmosphere3,09412,9000.04%0.001%Total global fresh water8,404,00035,030,000100%2.5%Total global water332,500,0001,386,000,000--100%Source: Gleick, P. H., 1996: Water resources. In Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, ed. by S. H. Schneider, Oxford University Press, New York, vol. 2, pp.817-823.
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∙ 15y agoVery little is in the atmosphere compared to the total amount of water. It only makes up 0.001 percent of the total water on earth and only 0.04 percent of total freshwater. The volume is about 3, 095 cubic miles of water in the atmosphere.
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∙ 10y agoThe amount of water vapor in the atmosphere varies from place to place. Humidity is the term used to describe the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.
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earth has a water vapor atmosphere
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∙ 9y agoLess than one percent of all the water vapor in Earth's atmosphere in contained in the stratosphere. Ninety nine percent of water vapor is in the troposphere.
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∙ 13y agoIt can be as little as 1 percent but can get as high as 5%.
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∙ 12y ago7.63 x 105 T
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What layer of the earth's atmosphere contains no water vapor?
The stratosphere contains almost no water vapor.
Is water vapor found normally in the upper stratosphere?
no water vapor is found normally in clouds luiquid
How does the hydrosphere affect weather?
The stratosphere affects the weather by contributing to the water vapor. This helps to create precipitation and move heat around the atmosphere.
What is the water vapor content in the air?
It means how much water vapor is suspended in the air, or how humid it is.
How is water trapped in stratosphere?
Water is trapped beneath the stratosphere by the tropopause. (The tropopause is the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere.)
What layer of the earth's atmosphere contains no water vapor?
The stratosphere contains almost no water vapor.
Is water vapor found normally in the upper stratosphere?
no water vapor is found normally in clouds luiquid
Why there are few clouds or no clouds in the stratosphere?
The amount of water vapor in the stratosphere is much lower than in the lower atmosphere. The condensation of water vapor is what creates clouds (and rain, hail, snow, and other forms of precipitation) Also because weather occurs in the troposphere, and clouds are formed from water vapor, which is part of the water cycle, which is part of weather
Why there is no rain in the stratosphere?
There is no rain in the stratosphere because the amount of water in the stratosphere is much lower than in the lower atmosphere, which means the condensation of water vapour which creates rain doesn't occur in the atmosphere.
How does the hydrosphere affect weather?
The stratosphere affects the weather by contributing to the water vapor. This helps to create precipitation and move heat around the atmosphere.
What is the stratoshere?
The stratosphere is the layer above the troposphere (where we live). The ozone layer is found in the lower stratosphere. The stratosphere is the lowest layer where temperature increases with increasing altitude.
What is the water vapor content in the air?
It means how much water vapor is suspended in the air, or how humid it is.
How is water trapped in stratosphere?
Water is trapped beneath the stratosphere by the tropopause. (The tropopause is the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere.)
When water vapor condenses how much heat is released into the atmosphere?
You get about 2260 joules for every gram of water vapor that condenses.
Measure how much water is in a water vapor?
well really you can't measure how much water is in a water vapor because its so tiny and its impossible for you to measure how much water is in a water vapor well really you can't measure how much water is in a water vapor because its so tiny and its impossible for you to measure how much water is in a water vapor
What is a measure of how much water vapor is in the air?
Humidity.
How much water vapor do you brethe?
12 percent
