Vocabulary
the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place
What is weather?
What is the troposhere?
cloud type that is wispy, above 6,000 m
What is a cirrus cloud?
What is air temperature?
What is continental tropical?
strato means...
What is "flat"?
the gas found in the highest percentage in Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
What is a nimbus cloud?
measured in millibars
What is air pressure?
maritime air masses contain...
What is moisture?
the temperature at which the air becomes saturated with vapor and it begins to condense forming dew
What is the dew point?
the coldest layer of the atmosphere
What is the mesosphere?
reaches the surface as large pellets of ice; starts as a small piece of ice that is repeatedly lifted and dropped in an updraft within a cloud adding an ice layer each time
What is hail?
measured by an anemometer
What is wind speed?
type of front that usually involves 3 air masse
What is an occluded front?
the boundary between air masses
What is a front?
this layer contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
frozen precipitation that melts in warm air and refreezes before it hits the ground
What is sleet?
the amount of vapor in the air compared to what it could hold; it is a percent.
What is relative humidity?
a large body of circulating air with low p at its center and higher P outside of the system
What is a low pressure system?
the transfer of thermal energy through a fluid
What is convection?
the 3rd highest gas in the atmosphere
What is argon?
type of clouds commonly found at cold fronts
cumulus or cumulonimbus
water in a liquid or solid form that fall from the atmosphere
What is precipitation?
front stalls for days with warm air on one side and cold air on the other
What is a stationary front?