Highest and Lowest Recorded Air Pressure, Location, Amount
What is Mongolia- 1086mb Dec 19, 2001
Siberia- 870 mb 1979
100
Where is Pressure the highest and lowest
What is the equator and poles
100
Pressure is high at the equator and low at the poles. Happens a few miles above the surface- no friction
What is Geostrophic Flow
100
Clouds are classified in two criteria...
What is Height and Form
100
A butterfly flaps its wings in Bolvia and two months later a tornado occurs in Kansas
What is Butterfly Phenomenon
200
Lowest Pressure in CT
What is Sandy 938 mb, 2012
200
In the tropics droplets will form into raindrops through...
What is collision-coalescence
200
Mid level clouds with flat bottoms and puffy rounded tops
What is Cumulus...
200
What type of cloud type is ...<
What is alto stratus
200
If the pressure is in the 800s or 900s, add a __ to the left and add a decimal point betwen the last and second to last number.
What is a 9?
300
lines on weather maps indicating lines of equal pressure
What is Isobars
300
Non-geostrophic winds which blow parallel to isobars, wind around curved isobars
What is Gradient Wind
300
Force due to the rotation of the earth, an object traveling in a straight line will appear to curve with respect to the surafce. Right- Northern Hempishere Left-Southern
What is Coriolis Force
300
A high cloud that looks like a tail of a horse...
A high cloud that is thin, wispy...
What is Mares Tail
300
Symbol for Moderate Snow
What is X X
400
Average Sea Level Pressure
What is 1013.25 mb, 29.92 in/mercury (inHg)
400
Flow of Wind: Wind around a Low that is counter clockwise and wind around a High that is clockwise
What is Cyclonic and Anticyclonic Flow
400
Wind at your back, Low on your left
What is Buys Ballots Law
400
The size of a cloud droplet and the size of a raindrop
What is .02mm & 2mm in diameter
400
Stability is enhanced by 3 processes
What is 1. Radioactive cooling of the ground at night 2. Inversion 3. Subsidence (descending air convergence aloft)
500
The pressure tendency is ... /
What is increasing
500
How does the PGF directed with respect to the isobars
What is perpindicular?
500
Affects winds in the lowest mile of the atmosphere, affects the Coriolis the most since Corilios depends on the speed and latitude of the parcel. This causes divergece around a high and convergence around a Low
The angles in which make with the Isobats depend on the roughness= mountains smoothest= ocean
What is Friction
500
Name the three levels of height for clouds... give their height in KM and feet
What is High Clouds ( above 20,000 ft, 6km)
Middle Clouds (above 2 km and below 6 km, 6500-20000)
Low Cloud ( 2km and below 6500ft)
500
What two things happen to light as it travels through the atmoshpher (Lunar Eclipse)
What is 1. Lens Bending (refracting)- the light of the sun
2. scatters sunlight: short wavelengths (blue light), long wavelength (red light)selectively removing blue light from the sunlight turning sunrise and sunset reddish