In the AIR
You'll find all the weather there.
What is the Troposphere?
It is decreased when there is warming from below.
What is stability?
Frost forms when the dewpoint is at or below this.
What are freezing temperatures?
These stand between two air masses.
What is a front?
These three (unstable air, lifting action, and high humidity) will get you one of those.
What is a thunderstorm?
Named for the French scientist who discovered anything in flight will have a curved path due to this force.
What is the Coriolis force?
Described as "getting warmer as you get higher."
What is an inversion?
Calculate that to predict the possibility of fog and low clouds.
What is the temperature-dewpoint spread?
When you fly across a front, you can notice these changes.
What is a change in temperature, wind direction or speed?
Cumulus, Mature, and Dissipating are defined as these.
What are the stages of a thunderstorm?
What is Frictional force?
The surface-based inversion must have this kind of wind and clear nights.
What is calm winds?
It's this type of air that result in stratus clouds.
What is stable air?
Steady precipitation and little turbulence is the product of that kind of front.
What is a warm front?
Severe turbulence, lightning, and hail... reason enough to stay away from these clouds.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The result is cool, dense air moving inland from over the water.
What is a sea breeze?
This is the temperature when the air can hold no more vapor; it is saturated.
What is dewpoint?
The wind blows moist air over cool surfaces to produce this type of fog.
What is advection fog?
It is not a front, but only a difference in moisture levels between two air masses.
What is a dry line?
Keeping a level one of these protects the airplane from over-stress when subjected to severe turbulence.
What is a flight attitude?
These variations are due to unequal heating.
What causes variations in altimeter settings?
Condensing water vapor will cause these.
Those are the cloud types which come from unstable air.
What are cumulus clouds?
As cold fronts go, the unstable air is on that side of it.
What is the warm side?
Thermals produce these, and cause convective turbulence.
What are towering cumulus clouds?