Lecture 8 Seawater
Lecture 9 Atmosphere
Lecture 10 Hurricanes
miscellaneous
(lec 8- lec10)
(lec 8- lec10)
100
The direct measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules that make up a substance
What is Temperature?
100
The percentage of solar radiation that is reflected back to space.
What is albedo?
100
The greatest cause of damage from a hurricane.
What is storm surge?
100
Lowest layer of the atmosphere, where all weather occurs
what is the troposphere?
200
Temperature varitation changing with depth.
What is thermocline?
200
What winds move from subtropical high-pressure belts toward the ITCZ
Trade winds!
200
organized system of strong thunderstorms with maximum sustained winds between 63-118 km/hr, this is when a storm receives a name.
What is a tropical storm?
200
What does the future of hurricane activity look like?
Frequency of the natural disaster will stay consistent, but the intensity of wind speeds will increase.
300
Density variation changing with depth.
What is Pycnocline
300
Earths circulation cell ranging from latitudes 30 to 60o
What is Ferrel Cell?
300
When energy released from condensation causes atmosphere to warm and rise again, releasing more heat, the "fuel" of hurricanes
What is latent heat?
300
What is the purpose of the Safari-Simpson scale?
measures hurricane windspeed to categorize intensity
400
The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a substance by 1 degree centigrade.
What is heat capacity?
400
Circulation cell convergent zones that are prone to increased weather activity.
What are low pressure zones?
400
Sediment that is specifically mobilized and re-deposited by hurricanes
What is overwash deposit?
400
rising air in the late afternoon, over a heated terrestrial surface pulling air toward the land from the ocean.
what is a Sea Breeze?
500
Get up and teach to the class these density relationships!
• Temperature ↑ =
• Salinity ↑ =
• Pressure ↑ =
• Temperature ↑ = Density ↓ warmer water expands
• Salinity ↑ = Density ↑ more dissolves material in same volume
• Pressure ↑ = Density ↑ water is compressed slightly at depth
500
Sketch each global wind belt and direction of air movement( West to East, East to west), relate the air movement to the Coriolis effect.
*BONUS* include the circulation cells & label the latitudes they occur at
500
Teach how hurricanes form (can draw it out if you want)
a) thunderstorm development
b) when storm is over warm ocean warm humid air rises and forms clouds and rain
c) this process releases latent heat which expands storm and draws more humid air upward
d) rotation develops around central atmosphere to form a "eye"
e) outer bands develop
500
The cause of seasons
what is Earth's tilt