WEATHER
WEATHER 2
CLIMATE
CURRENTS
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TROPICAL cyclone winds > 119 kms/hr forming over the oceans
What is a hurricane
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This effect relates to the bouncing of radio waves from objects and is use to detect weather changes as well as in the diagnosis of various medical conditions in the human body
What is the Doppler effect
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This refers to the long term average conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds in a geographical area.
What is climate
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Short term changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean caused by changes in ocean surface currents and prevailing winds.
What is El Nino and La Nina
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Hurricane in the western Pacific Ocean
What is a typhoon
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Relative Humidity can be measured with this device
What is a Psychrometer
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This is the climate zone between 0 deg lat to 23.5 degrees latitude North and South of the equator
What is tropical
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These currents keep the water moving in the oceans and forms a conveyor belt, with water moving toward the poles near the surface and moving towards the equator deeper
What Deep Ocean Currents
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A dome of water that sweeps across land as the hurricane makes landfall
What is a storm surge
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In the continental US, air masses are commonly moved by these winds
What is the Prevailing Westerlies and the Jet Stream.
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Sea and Land breezes over a large region that change direction with seasons, bringing heavy rains sometimes.
What is monsoon.
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Ocean currents are subject to this phenomenon just as Winds in the atmosphere.
What is the Coriolis effect
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Lines joining places on a map that have the same air pressure
What are Isobars
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Scientists use these to show fronts, pressure, precipitation, wind direction and speed, and temperatures on the maps
What are symbols
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This side of the mountain range receives all the rain usually and has dense forests/ foliage due to receiving almost all of the rain.
What is the windward side
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These currents are mainly affected by winds and usually affect water upto a depth of several hundred meters.
What are surface currents
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Lines joining places on the map that have the same temperature
What are Isotherms
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This is a type of cloud that forms flat layers and covers much of the sky
What is stratus
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These hot dry winds blow in Southern California during fall and winter causing potential forest fires in this region
What is Santa Ana winds
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This is the movement of cold water upward from deep ocean as wind pushes away warm surface waters, causing the surface waters to mix with deeper ocean waters, thus bringing tiny ocean organisms, minerals and other nutrients from deeper layers of water.
What is upwelling
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