Thunderstorm Structure
This flat icy structure is named after a similar looking blacksmith tool?
What is an anvil?
These ingredients are necessary for thunderstorms to form
What are lift, instability, and moisture
What is a decrease?
This platform which often carries multiple measurement devices and is located in space is called?
What is a satellite?
This is the technical name for a thundercloud.
What is a cumulonimbus?
This is the name for an area of rain-cooled air.
What is a cold pool?
This area is known for high freezing levels and low annual variability in temperature.
What is the tropics?
This word is often used to describe the motion within deep convective clouds.
What is turbulence?
This active sensor is located on the ground and uses radio waves to measure the weather. It is particularly helpful for determining where there is precipitation.
What is (doppler) radar?
This cloud occurs on the boundary between a cold pool and the warm air ahead of it.
What is a shelf cloud?
This feature separates supercells from other types of thunderstorms.
What is a persistent, rotating updraft.
What is absorbing insulation in the lower atmosphere
This is the cutoff point between optical depth and lightning increases.
What is 0.3?
These are three reasons why it's hard to measure cloud processes in deep convection.
What are turbulence, icing, requires high spacial resolution.
This is the name for clouds which are layered.
What are stratiform clouds.
These organized groups of thunderstorms produce a majority of rain in many parts of the US and have large impacts on the latent heat budget.
What is an MCS?
Smoke in this area is associated with severe thunderstorm activity in the Great Planes
What is Central America?
This type of parameterization scheme fits a distribution to aerosol sizes and is not relatively computationally expensive.
What is bulk parameterization?
These particles lead to the formation of ice crystals?
What are INP?
This level is often where the base of a cloud forms.
What is the lifted condensation level?
This thunderstorm type is common on summer days and is often isolated and disorganized.
What are pulse/single-celled thunderstorms?
Thunderstorms release a lot of this type of heat into the surrounding atmosphere.
Lightning produces this amount of NOX on a yearly basis.
What is 5 TG?
This radar phenomenon forms due to snow melting just below the freezing level.
What is a bright band?
This word, which is Arabic in origin, is a another name for dust storms
What is a haboob?