Atmosphere - Review
Measurement of heat or cold.
What is Temperature?
Cold, Warm, Stationary, and Occluded
What are the types of weather fronts?
Fog that forms at night, cools air below the dew point.
What is Radiation fog?
Difference between actual and the dew point temperature.
What is spread?
Invisible, but bumpy.
What is Clear Air Turbulence (CAT)?
Happens when moist air is blown over a cold surface.
What is Advection Fog?
Lateral movement of air.
What is wind?
An elongated area of low pressure.
What is a trough?
Clouds with thunder and lightning
What is Cumulonimbus Cloud?
Rotation of the Earth affects moving over the surface.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Amount of water vapor that can enter the air mass before it becomes saturated.
What is Relative Humidity?
The three general types of clouds.
What is Cumulus, Stratus, Cirrus?
Elongated area of high pressure.
What is a ridge?
Caused when a column of air is quickly cooled and rapidly falls.
What is a microburst?
Forms slightly below the elevation of the mountain crest when air coming over is spinning on an axis that parallels the mountain's shape.
What is a rotor cloud?