Hydrologic Cycle & Humidity
These are tiny particles upon whose surfaces condensation of water begins in the atmosphere.
What are condensation nuclei?
High clouds have this type of composition.
What is Ice Crystal?
An unsaturated environment follows this rate?
What is a dry adiabatic rate?
This is a region where air masses originate and acquire their properties of temperature and moisture
What is a Source Region?
This is a type of pressure system that would be above an area of Upper-Level Jet Stream Convergence.
What is a High Pressure System?
This is the temperature to which air must be cooled for saturation occur; assuming at a consistent pressure and water vapor content
What is Dew Point?
Clouds that have vertical development are part of this family of clouds.
What is cumuliform?
The atmospheric condition that exists when the environmental lapse rate is greater than the dry adiabatic rate.
What is Absolutely Unstable Atmosphere?
Summers in the Southeast of the US – Daily, humid subtropical air temperatures with frequent afternoon thunderstorms are an example of this type of weather
What is Air Mass Weather?
This is another name for a Mid Latitude Cyclone.
What is an Extratropical Cyclone?
This is an instrument consisting of a wet-bulb and a dry-bulb thermometer, the difference being used to determine atmospheric humidity.
What is a Psychrometer?
Clouds that have alto as their prefix are in this category of clouds?
What are Middle Clouds?
Ice Crystal process is also known as this.
What is the Bergeron Process?
Active weather mostly occurs in the margins bewteen air masses, these margins are known as this
What are fronts?
The Hatteras Low is an example is where this can occur.
What is Cyclogenesis?
This is a reading that combines dry bulb air temperature and relative humidity.
What is Heat Index?
This varies based on the latitude of the cloud origin.
What is cloud base?
Clay minerals and bacteria are examples of this.
What are Ice Nuclei?
A front with winds blowing almost parallel and from opposite directions on each side of the front
What is a stationary front?
This is the final stage of development for a Mid Latitude Cyclone.
What is a Cut-Off Cyclone?
This occurs when warm, moist air moves over a cold surface and the ar cools to below its dew point
What is advection fog?
The elevation level above the surface marking the base of a cumuliform cloud
What is Condensation Level?
These are also called know pellets?
What is Graupel?
This is a specific type of front where the air behind the front is milder than the air ahead of it.
What is a warm occlusion front?
A visible halo around the sun is a typical phenomena of this type of cloud.
What is a cirrostratus?