Types of Precipitation Formation Processes
      Although moisture is always present in the atmosphere but it is condensed only when air is cooled and saturated with some water vapors. Usually mechanism by which air is cooled to cause precipitation is the lifting of air mass. Based on lifting of air carrying vapors, precipitation is classified as follows:
    Cyclonic precipitation
    Convective precipitation
    Orographic precipitation
    
    
    
   
     
 
