Tropical
A tropical storm that occurs in the NW Pacific
What is a Typhoon?
Direction of air pressure
What is High to Low?
States of Water
What is Solid, Liquid, and Gas?
Troposphere, Tropopause, and Statosphere
What is layers of the atmosphere?
Heat source for Earth
What is the Sun?
What is a Monsoon?
Lines of equal pressure
What is Isobars?
Temperature at which saturation occurs
What is Dew Point (Temperature)?
The permanent gasses in the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen and Oxygen?
Stream of air concentrated at or near the tropopause
What is a jet stream?
Temperature that varies little between the seasons
What is Sea Surface Temperature?
When wind direction changes in an anticlockwise sense
What is backing?
The amount of water vapor in the air is dependent on this
What is Temperature?
The layer where clouds, precipitation, and vertical movement occur
What is the Troposphere?
Cell that rotates clockwise
What is the Ferrel Cell?
Wind speed of a Cat 3 hurricane
What is 96-113 kts?
Winds of at least Force 8 on the Beaufort Scale
What is Gale (winds)?
Heat which is absorbed or released
What is Latent Heat?
The layer in which temperature remains the same with height
What is Isothermal?
Pressure belt at 30o N and S
What is the Subtropical High?
Cyclones with maximum sustained winds less than 34 kts
What is a Tropical Depression?
Resulting air flow that runs parallel to isobars
What is Geostrophic Wind?
When ice particles change into water vapor
What is Sublimation?
Factors that influence global surface temperature variation
What is Time of Day, Effect of Cloud Cover, Effect of Wind, Seasons, Latitude, and Albedo?
Converging equatorial air flows
What is NE and SE Trade Winds?