Met Random
Thermal Wind
Jet Streams
The Atmosphere
Wind/CAT
100

This temperature of air has the least convection

Cold Air

100

This is the term for lines of equal temperature

Isotherms

100

For a Jet Stream to be named as such, it needs to have a flow velocity greater than this

60 knots

100

Convective Thunder Clouds would be found around this type of Front.

Cold Front

100

The pressure gradient determines this

The strength of the wind

200

Pressure levels in the atmosphere will be highest during this season

Summer

200

This is what the winds are called when the Pressure Gradient Force equals the Coriolis Force

Geostrophic

200

This Season has the fastest Jet Stream Velocity

Winter  (Why?)

200

This is why the Arctic and Antarctic do not receive sunshine in the winter

Extreme low sun angle

200

Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) is defined as this

All turbulence that is not in or adjacent to convective activity

300

This is the term for lines of equal wind speed

IsoTach

300

A Thermal wind is not actual wind but is the difference between the actual winds at ____________________.

Two different pressure levels

300

The speed of a Jet Stream is usually found at it's __________________.

Core

300

Clear Air Turbulence generally forms in this preferred location

A Jet Stream

300

CAT generally forms as a result of this

Vertical Wind Shear

400

The term for long thin "contact lens" like clouds forming due to adiabatic cooling and heating in a lee wave crest

Lenticulars

400

Thermal wind flows in this direction relative to the isotherms

Parallel

400

A Frontal Jet Stream can meander up and down with these changes

Heights of the Tropopause

400

Anvil tops of CB's spread out at the Troposphere because of this.

Temperature goes nearly Isothermal

400

Relative to the shape of the Isobars, CAT is characteristically found here

Along Sharp Ridges and Sharp Troughs

500

How would you draw a wind bard indicating a wind velocity of 75 knots?

Come up and draw

500

When standing with your back to the wind, in general, the cold air in a thermal wind is on this side of the flow

Left.  Just like Buys Ballots Law

500

The name of this Jet Stream has a typical height of 37,000 feet

Polar Jet

500

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500

When crossing a Jetstream, you should make this change in flight path if you find the temperature increasing and significant turbulence is encountered.

Climb

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