Clouds
A mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere
What is clouds?
A violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud
What is a tornado?
A straight line with blue triangles
What is a cold front represented on a weather map?
A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants
What is global warming?
The abbreviation for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
What is NOAA?
Fluffy, cotton ball like clouds that bring fair weather
What is cumulus clouds?
A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean
What is a Hurricane?
A straight line with red domes
What is a warm front represented on a weather map?
This form of heat transfer is partally responsible for global warming
What is convection?
Weather buoys off the coast of the US are painted this color
What is yellow?
low, gray, flat clouds that bring light drizzle
What is stratus clouds?
Heavy, unexpected, accumulated rainfall
What is a flood?
A line with alternating domes and triangles.
What is a stationary front represented on a weather map?
The race that is directly responsible for global warming?
What is humans?
Significant wave height, Dominant wave period, average wave period, mean wave direction, and water temperature is information all provided by what
What is NOAA weather Buoys?
known for their threatening thunderstorm weather, these clouds are large and dark
What is Cumulonimbus clouds?
A natural electrical phenomenon characterized by the appearance of streamers of reddish or greenish light in the sky, usually near the northern or southern magnetic pole.
What is Aruora Borialis?
A straight purple line with alternating domes and triangles on the same side
What is a occluded front?
The lowest level of the atmosphere?
What is the Troposphere?
The number of weather stations deployed by NOAA around the world
What is 1,431?
These clouds bring continuous rain or snow
What is Nimbus clouds?
Pellets of frozen rain which fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is hail?
The way to tell cloud cover
What is the percentage of the circle filled in?
The highest level of the atmosphere
What is the Exosphere?
The name of the NOAA ship stationed at Norfolk named after the third President of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson?