Climate
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
What is climate?
a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
What is Air Mass?
Moisture Content: Find the Air Masses: 2) One way of identifying a tropical air mass on the weather map below is to look for a region of higher temperatures. To find a polar air mass, look for a region of colder temperatures.
How do you identify Air Masses?
Earth has three main climate zones—tropical, temperate, and polar. These zones can be further divided into smaller zones, each with its own typical climate.
What are the 3 major climate zones?
Weather is the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term variation in minutes to weeks. People generally think of weather as the combination of temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, visibility, and wind. ...Climate is the weather of a place averaged over a period of time, often 30 years.
How are weather and climate different?
Continental air masses form over land and are dry. Therefore, an air mass that develops over northern Canada is called a continental polar air mass and is cold and dry. One that forms over the Indian Ocean is called a maritime tropical air mass and is warm and humid.
What would a dry,cold air mass be called?
Most climate scientists agree the main cause of the current global warming trend is human expansion of the "greenhouse effect"1 — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping.
What is the cause and effect of climate change?