Solar Radiation
Radiation waves that have both electric and magnetic fields and travel through space are classified as this.
What is Electromagnetic
This is what the greenhouse effect should be called.
What is the atmospheric effect?
Air temperature rises, air converges and expands in this type of pressure system.
What is low pressure systems?
This is a microscale air mass that spins into itself
What is an eddy?
This occurs when the Pacific Ocean cools more than usual as part of the ENSO cycle.
What is La Niña?
This is heat trasnferred through direct contact.
What is Conduction?
This is at the wavelength range of 8 - 10 mircometeres.
What is the atmospheric window?
This is uncorrected pressure readings at a location.
What is station pressure?
This is a breeze blows from the land out over the water.
What is a land breeze?
This wind is also called a 'fall wind'
What are Katabatic Winds?
This is when light passes through a medium with minimal alteration.
What is Transmission
This describes some gases in the atmosphere that are better at absorbing radiation at different wavelengths
What are selective absorbers?
In the South Hemisphere, air is deflected to the left due to this force.
What is the Coriolis Force?
This phenomenon describes the belt of weak surface winds near the equator caused by rising air.
What are doldrums?
The stratospheric ozone absorbs some ultraviolet radiation, protecting living organisms from DNA damage by reducing exposure to these two types of UV wavelengths.
What are UVB and UVC?
This is the percentage of light reflected by a surface.
What is albedo?
These are lines on a map that connect points of equal temperature
What is an isotherm?
Upper level wind charts are typically at this millibar pressure height.
What is 500mb?
This type of air circulation is a cell near the equator
What is a Hadley Cell?
This is a chart that shows wind speed and direction frequencies at a location.
What is a wind rose?
Instantaneous energy per unit area at a specific time is called this.
What is irradiance?
This is the ratio of heat energy needed to be absorbed by a material to the temperature change.
What is heat capacity?
This is inward directed net force acting on air parcels.
What is centripetal force?
This phenomenon describes wind-driven dust and sand uplift, common in desert regions
What is a Haboob?
This is another name for a Chinook, representing its aftereffects on weather.
What is Snow Eater?