OBS
This is the region GOES-WEST is great for monitoring.
What is the Pacific?
These patterns of isobars dip TOWARDS the equator and mean unsettled weather for regions.
What are troughs?
An airplane with conserve fuel when flying WITH this wind pattern.
What is the jet stream?
This front is depicted by a curved red symbol with half circles across it.
What is a warm front?
The acronym CME stands for this type of space weather.
What is Coronal Mass Ejection?
This color on a radar's velocity scan signifies air moving away from the radar.
What is red?
This process from the ocean surface supplies the majority of atmospheric water and is a major part of the global water cycle.
What is evaporation?
Weather balloons are filled with this.
What is helium or hydrogen?
Large-scale wind patterns typically flow in this direction around the globe.
What is west to east?
This is a weather front where warm air is replacing cool air.
What is a warm front?
This weather front is depicted by a blue curve with triangles across it.
What is a cold front?
These regions on the sun form on an 11-year cycle.
What are sunspots?
This color on a radar's velocity scan signifies air moving toward the radar.
What is green?
The Coriolis Effect along with continents creates these large systems of circulations across the globe.
What are gyres?
What is an anemometer?
This is the map meteorologists typically start with when building a forecast.
What is the 500 MB pressure map?
This reflects wind to the right in the northern hemisphere.
The Coriolis Force.
This front is where there is a sharp contrast in dewpoints across a small region, sparking storms.
What is a dryline?
The origins of space weather can be traced to contortions in this specific field of the sun.
What is magnetic?
The acronym RADAR stands for this remote sensing tool.
What is Radio Detection and Ranging?
These boundary currents tend to be wide and flow from higher latitudes toward the equator.
What is eastern?
This instrument measures wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
All weather maps express their time with this particular time style.
This type of weather typically occurs between the ridge and downstream trough.
This front occurs when an extra-tropical cyclone is weakening.
What is an occluded front?
This is the source of heat for the Earth and other planets in our solar system.
What is the sun?
Solar radiation is often subject to this which reduces the amount of energy that reaches the surfaces.
What is scattering?
These boundary currents tend to be narrow, deep, and flow from the equator toward the poles.
What is western?
A network of weather observing systems that create more data points to analyze the atmosphere.
What is a MESONET?
This pressure level is considered halfway up the troposphere.
What is the 500 mb level?
What is unsettled weather?
These types of clouds are most often associated with warm fronts.
What are stratus clouds?
The state of being when objects are emitting and radiating the same rate of energy.
What is equilibrium?
These are key players in our ability to perform remote sensing: using radiation to infer properties of an object from a distance.
What are satellites?
This is a phenomenon that describes the net movement of water in a direction of about 90 degrees from the wind direction.
What is Ekman Transport?
This is what a hygrometer measures in the atmosphere.
Heat and gravity both contribute to producing this weather phenomenon.
What is wind?
The jet stream typically has wind speeds of this amount.
What is 200 kts ?
These types of clouds are most often associated with cold fronts.
What are cumulus clouds?
The atmosphere trapping heat and insulating a planet is associated with this effect.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
These wavelengths are associated with lower frequency or energy.
What are longer wavelengths?
What is Automated Surface Observing Systems?
Weather exists because the atmosphere is seeking ______ in air temperatures worldwide.
What is balance?
Air generally moves from this type of pressure to the second type of pressure.
What is high to low?
These are the initiator of fronts and form as a result of different temperatures between the tropics and poleward latitudes.
What are extratropical cyclones?
These storms can affect satellites and our technology across the globe when they flare up.
What is solar?
These wavelengths are associated with higher frequency or energy.
What are shorter wavelengths?
The events are caused by changing winds, which drive changes in ocean surface currents and cause heat to be unevenly distributed.
What is ENSO; El Nino or La Nina; El Nino Southern Oscillation.