Unequal surface heating causes pockets of air to rise because of buoyancy.
100
Air stability
What is determined by measuring the temperature of the atmosphere at various hieghts.
100
A dry desert like area
If one side of a mountain range has cool temperature and gets plenty of rainfall, we would expect the other side of that range to have.
200
Cumulus
Rounded individual cloud masses
200
Hail
Produced by cumulanimbus clouds
200
Precipitation
Any form of water that falls from a cloud
200
The ocean water will get warmer
During El Nino what will happen to the ocean temperature off the coast of south america
200
cold water
With the onset of El nino, warm water blocks the upwelling of
300
Stratus
Sheets or layers of clouds that cover the sky
300
Hailstones
Small pellets of ice
300
Orographic liftig
What is when mountains act like barriers
300
The cool and warm wind circle each other in a clockwise motion.
Explain the directional temperature movement of a hadley cell
300
El Nino
What is the name of the weather system that can occur every three to seven years and involves episodes of ocean warming that affect the eastern tropical pacific.
400
Fog
A cloud close to the ground
400
Font
The boundary between two adjoining air masses having contrasting characteristics
400
Dew paoin
Temperature to which a percel air would need to be cooled to reach saturation.
400
Oragraphic lifting
Death valley is a long and low depression located east of the sierra Nevada mountains. It is over 130 miles long and 12 miles wide. What process that lifts air is a reason for this deserts existing.
400
Low
Most of earths rain forest are found around what latitude.
500
Cumulonimbus
Clouds that make thunderstorms and rain showers
500
Convergence
Air that flows and rises together
500
Hygrometer
What is an instrument to measure relative humidity.
500
High
Most of earths deserts are found along what latitide.
500
It gets colder the higher the more you increase in altitude.
What happens to air temperature s you increase in altitude.