Atmosphere I
What is a temperature inversion?
Air parcels tend to _________ in an unstable environment.
What is rise?
The ability to do work on some form of matter.
What is energy?
Cooling of the ground and air by giving off infrared energy.
What is radiational cooling?
The amount of water vapor present in the atmosphere.
What is humidity?
This is the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer
What is the Stratosphere?
The boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
What is the tropopause?
The ways heat is transfered
What are conduction, convection and radiation?
latitude
land water distribution
ocean currents
elevations
What are the controls are regional temperature variations?
This is the transition of a substance directly
from the solid phase to the gas phase.
What is sublimation?
This is the blanket of air that is made up of gases and surrounds the Earth.
What is atmosphere?
The rate at which the air temperature decreases with height.
What is the Lapse Rate?
An object that absorbs all of the radiation that strikes it and emits radiation at a maximum rate for its given temperature.
What is a blackbody?
The number of days the mean daily temperature is above the base temperature of a particular crop.
What are the growing degree days?
The actual amount of moisture in the air compared to the total amount of moisture the air can hold at a particular temperature and pressure.
What is relative humidity?
This is the layer where clouds and weather are mostly found. Most aircraft fly here too!
What is the Troposphere?
The upper limit of the atmosphere, which is where atoms and molecules shoot into outerspace.
What is the exosphere?
The percent of radiation returning from a given surface.
(Snow = 75 to 95, Water = 10)
What is albedo?
This is the measurement of distance in degrees north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
A wind coming from the south.
What is a southerly wind?
This region is not really a layer, but it contains large concentration of ions and free electrons.
What is the Ionosphere?
This is a tool with a parachute and balloon used to study the atmosphere and weather.
What is a radiosonde?
The absorption of infrared radiation from Earth by Water vapor and CO2.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This is how cold the wind makes us feel.
This is the temperature when air reaches the point where it can hold no more moisture.
What is dew point?