Humidity
Fog and Dew
Clouds
Precipitation
Potpourri
100
Specific Humidity
What is the actual amount of water vapor in the atmosphere? grams of water vapor/kg of air
100
These are condensation nuclei and 3 examples.
What are tiny particles that water can condense onto? dust, salt, smoke, pollen,pollution.
100
This is the part of the composition of clouds that makes them visible.
What are water droplets or ice crystals?
100
These are the different types of precipitation and are classified by these 2 things.
What are drizzle, rain, sleet, hail, or snow and are classified by size and state of matter?
100
Evaporation does this to the surrounding air temperature in contrast to condensation.
What is cools it down and heats it up?
200
Relative Humidity
What is the measure of water vapor in the air based on its capacity as a percent?
200
If condensation occurs with condensation nuclei present, these outcomes are possible. (2)
What are a cloud or fog?
200
A low laying cloud within the first 500m of the atmosphere.
What is fog?
200
These are 2 different processes that form raindrops.
What are a warm cloud and cold cloud (ice process)?
200
Water is present in our atmosphere in all 3 phases of matter, they are spoken of meteorologically by these names.
What is liquid - rain, fog, clouds; solid - ice, snow, hail, sleet; and gas - water vapor.
300
The typical specific humidities for summer and winter months.
What is summer - 20g/kg and winter - 5g/kg?
300
When air cools at night due to lack of solar radiation and condensation nuclei are NOT present, this forms.
What are dew or frost?
300
These are the 4 main cloud families and they are divided by this.
What are high, middle, low, and vertical development? What is by height range?
300
The units of rain and snow are measured differently and are measured using these.
What are snow - 1/10 of an inch with a stick and rain - 1/100 of an inch with a rain gauge?
300
This is the definition of local winds and the examples.
What is wind blowing less than 100km, sea, land, mountain, and valley?
400
This is the relative humidity of air that has 5 grams of water vapor and a holding capacity of 10 grams per kg.
What is 50%?
400
The temperature at which saturation occurs due to cooling.
What is Dew Point?
400
These are the meanings for cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus, and alto.
What is cirrus - wispy, stratus - flat, cumulus - pile/puffy, nimbus - rain, and alto - middle?
400
Making clouds rain by introducing condensation nuclei.
What is Cloud seeding?
400
This is the force per unit area, however this is the weight of the atmosphere above.
What is pressure and air pressure?
500
These are the 2 instruments used to measure relative humidity and how they each do so.
What is a Hygrometer that is based on the idea that hair stretches when humid and a Psychrometer which uses a wet bulb and a dry bulb?
500
These are the 4 ways that air may cool to allow water vapor to condense.
What are contact with a cooler surface, radiate its heat, mix with colder air, and expansion as it rises (adiabatic cooling)?
500
These are the moist and dry adiabatic lapse rates.
What are .6 degrees C/100m for moist and 1 degree C/100m for dry?
500
Acid rain can cause harmful effects, such as... because it is made of this.
What is water with a pH lower than 5.5 (normal rain water) that causes damage to water, soil, plants, forests, animals, and buildings?
500
Name the units meteorologists use to measure air pressure.
What are height of Hg or millibars?
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