EPS
Climate Change
Hodge Podge
Summertime Convection
Famous Meteorologists
100
This EPS diagram shows max,min, median and 25/75 percentiles.
What is a box and whisker diagram
100
This region of the world will most likely warm most rapidly due to climate change
What is the Arctic
100
This snowflake variety is associated with heavy snow
What are dendrites?
100
When a parcel of air rises to this level, its relative humidity will have reached 100%
What is LCL (Lifted Condensation Level)
100
This Norwegian founded the Bergen School of Meteorology
Who is Vilhelm Bjerknes
200
This organisation runs an ensemble forecast system with 52 individual members twice per day
What is the ECMWF
200
The IPCC expressed significant uncertainty on human-caused warming in this continental region
What is Antarctica
200
Precipitation rate depends on precipitation efficiency, available moisture and this parameter.
What is ascent.
200
This is a scale of tornado severity with numbers from 0 to 6, based on the degree of observed damage.
What is the Fujita Scale
200
These planetary waves were named after this famous meteorologist
Who is Carl Gustaf Rossby
300
Ensemble forecasts are generated by modelling uncertainties one of these sources of NWP error
What is initial conditions OR - modelling OR - boundary conditions
300
This country has the highest per capita carbon dioxide emissions
What is Australia
300
A model with 4 km grid spacing can resolve meteorological features as small as this scale
What is 12 km?
300
Electrification of a thunderstorm occurs with the collision of ice crystals and this
What is graupel
300
He coined the term the Butterfly Effect
Who is Edward Lorenz
400
One should examine this when assessing the mean Ensemble solution for uncertainty
What is the spread or standard deviation
400
This greenhouse gas is the biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect
What is water vapour?
400
Weather observers and auto stations encode their observations into this format
What is a METAR
400
this index is a ratio between the mixed layer CAPE and 0-6km mean wind
What is the Bulk Richardson number
400
This person is regarded as the creator of the conveyor belt conceptual model
Who is Keith Browning
500
The North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS) contains these two NWP forecast models.
What are the NCEP GFS and the Canadian GEM models.
500
This country is the world's biggest user of renewable energy technologies, investing nearly $90 billion last year
What is China
500
As moist air moves over a cool surface and cools through conduction, this type of fog has the potential to form
What is advection fog
500
This is a long lasting, widespread straight line wind storm associated with severe thunderstorms
What is a derecho
500
This student of the Bergen School of Meteorology and MIT meteorology head participated in the D-Day forecast
Who is Sverre Petterssen
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