Lesson 1
The study of the physics, chemistry, and dynamics, of atmospheric phenomena.
What is Meteorology?
Helps to equalize the thermal energy on earth.
What is Global Wind Systems?
liquid-in-glass, bimetallic-strip, and digital.
What are types of thermometers?
A record of weather data for a particular site at a particular time.
What are station models?
The most accurate and detailed forecasts because weather systems change direction, speed, and intensity over time.
What is short-term forecast?
Root word of Meteorology.
What is "high in the air"?
Strongest core of winds.
What is Jet streams?
Measures wind and speed.
What is a anemometer?
Connect points of equal or constant values; values represent different weather variables such as pressure or temperature.
What are isopleths?
Less reliable forecasts because it is impossible for computers to model all the variables that affect the weather at a given time and place.
What is long-term forecast?
Cloud droplets and precipitation.
What is hydrometeors?
Dense air displaces warm air, it forces the warm air up along a steep slope.
What is a cold front?
Measures humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
Lines of equal pressure.
What are isobars?
The short-term variations in atmospheric phenomena that interact and affect the environment and life on Earth.
What is weather?
Thunder and lightening (what you can see and hear).
What is electrometeors?
Advancing warm air displaces cold air along a warm front; can cause a widespread of light precipitation.
What is a warm front?
ASOS
What is Automated Surface Observing System?
Lines of equal temperature.
What are isotherms?
The long-term averages and variations in weather for a particular area.
What is climate?
Smoke, haze, dust, and other particles in the atmosphere.
What is lithometeors?
Air rises; moves in a clockwise direction.
What is low-pressure systems?
The change in pitch or frequency that occurs due to the relative motion of a wave, such as sound or light.
What is the doppler effect?
Based on a comparison of current weather patterns with similar weather patterns from the past.
What is analog forecast?
Reflected, absorbed, stored, and redistributed among the atmosphere, ocean, and land systems.
What is thermal energy?