Is your parcel buoyant?
This occurs when condensation = evaporation.
What is saturation?
The Bergeron Process is a precipitation process that occurs in this type of cloud.
What is a cold cloud?
The direction air moves in order to equalize pressure (by Pressure Gradient Force).
What is from high to low?
This occurs when winds "collide" at a low pressure
What is convergence?
These are city-sized (a few miles to as much as 15-20 miles large) atmospheric circulations.
What are Mesoscale?
An environment that cools at a rate between the moist and dry lapse rates?
What is a conditionally unstable atmosphere?
This can keep a raindrop suspended in a cloud, allowing it to grow.
What is an Updraft?
In the two-column model, this column becomes taller.
What is the warm column?
At the surface and in the Northern Hemisphere, winds flow in this direction around a high pressure system?
What are clockwise and away from?
According to the 3-Cell Model, Low Pressure is present at these two latitudes?
What are the Equator and 60°N/S?
The four processes that allow air to rise in the atmosphere?
What are convergence, convection, topographic lifting and frontal lifting?
What is Virga?
The direction the Coriolis force steers wind in the southern hemisphere.
What is to the left?
In the upper atmosphere, this condition is achieved when the Pressure Gradient Force Equals the Coriolis Force.
What is Geostrophic Balance?
These are the three "simplifications" we make to the single-celled model.
What are a water covered, no tilt, rotationless Earth?
The rate of cooling as a parcel rises is 10°C/1000m.
What is the dry-adiabatic lapse rate.
A raindrop is, on average, this many times larger than a cloud droplet.
What is 1,000,000 times?
The average sea level pressure in Milibars
What is 1013.25mb?
North-South winds are called these.
What are Meridional Winds?
In the three-celled model, this simplification from the single celled model is removed.
What is "no rotation" (Meaning Earth is allowed to rotate).
A parcel that is warmer than the air surrounding it will do this.
What is Rise?
This is needed for Sleet/Freezing Rain to form.
What is an Inversion?
Friction is important up to this altitude in the atmosphere.
What is 1000 meters?
The two factors that affect the Pressure Gradient Force?
What are difference (between high and low) and distance (between high and low)?
During the Summertime, Monsoon winds near India are flowing in this direction.
What is onshore?