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Vapor Pressure

Also:

The pressure freely mobile water molecules exert. Two features of vapor pressure that influence snow metamorphism are:

1. Vapor pressure rises with temperature and,

2. Vapor pressure is higher over convex surfaces than over concave surfaces.

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