Basic Weather
Name one of the phase changes that water goes through.
What is freezing/melting/evaporation/condensation?
A weather model.
What is a mathematical set of calculations solved by a computer?
The name of your instructor today
Who is Jonah?
The high temperature is going to be over 100 degrees today.
What is true?
The name of the mobile radar outside.
What is RaXPol?
What is evaporation/melting?
Name one of the weather models introduced in the slides (must say the entire name).
What is Global Forecast System/North American Model?
The University that RaXPol belongs to.
What is the University of Oklahoma?
The main process stopping rain from forming.
What is sinking air?
The name of the network of radars used to scan the entire country 24/7.
What is the NEXRADs?
An ingredient (other than water) that is necessary for clouds to form.
What is dust/pollution? (rising air is also acceptable :))
The cost of the newest weather satellite was in the (millions, billions, or trillions).
What is billions?
The name of our assistant who helped run RaXPol outside.
Who is Laura?
Name a type of cloud we saw in the sky today.
What is I don't know because I wrote this the day before?
These are the particles that weather radars are able to "see".
What is raindrops/hail/snow/precipitation?
Name the three ingredients needed for thunderstorms to form
What are moisture, unstable air, and lift?
The term given to a satellite whose orbit is the same spot relative to Earth.
What is geosynchronous?
The number of units in my slideshow.
What is 8?
What is ridge/high pressure?
This was what RaXPol was designed for.
What is scanning rapidly?
When a thunderstorm has an updraft that rotates.
What is a supercell?
This is what satellites detect to give us information about the atmosphere.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
One thing you learned today.
What is everyone get's 500!
What is none?
The type of electromagnetic radiation that weather radars like RaXPol and NEXRADs use?
What is microwave radiation?