Atmosphere - Review
Measurement of heat or cold.
What is Temperature?
Fog, rain, snow, haze, smoke, blowing dust, clouds, and sand all reduce it.
What are some things that reduce visibility?
Fog that forms at night, cools air below the dew point.
What is Radiation fog?
Difference between actual and the dew point temperature.
What is spread?
Horizontal tornadoes that settle between 500-800 ft below aircraft's flight level.
What are vortices from the wing tips that cause wake turbulence?
Happens when moist air is blown over a cold surface.
What is Advection Fog?
Lateral movement of air.
What is wind?
It can form inside the engine when the temperature and the dew point are close
What is carburetor ice?
Clouds with thunder and lightning
What is Cumulonimbus Cloud?
Rotation of the Earth affects moving over the surface.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Cumulus Stage, Mature Stage, and Dissipating Stage
What are the three stages of a Thunderstorm?
The three general types of clouds.
What is Cumulus, Stratus, Cirrus?
Elongated area of high pressure.
What is a ridge?
It is a scale for classifying tornados.
What is the Fujita and Pearson Intensity Scale?
Forms slightly below the elevation of the mountain crest when air coming over is spinning on an axis that parallels the mountain's shape.
What is a rotor cloud?