70% of the global population lives within what number of miles from the coast?
What is 100 miles?
100
Two types of orbits for NOAA's environmental satellites.
What are Geostationary and Polar?
100
Reaching a height of up to 65,000 ft tall, this noisy phenomena is common in summer.
What is a thunderstorm? Also accepted is cumulonimbus.
200
Used to increase the resolution of climate and weather forecasts
What is climate/weather downscaling?
200
The month when the greatest number of hurricanes are likely to occur.
What is September?
200
The global data from polar-orbiting satellites make it a good input into these complex computer programs.
What are forecast models? (Also accepted: NWP models)
200
This immersing phenomena is the leading killer of all weather disasters.
What is flooding?
300
Heating and cooling degree days serve this purpose.
What is used to predict a building's energy use?
300
The category of storm associated with a storm surge of 13 – 18 feet.
What is a category 4 tropical cyclone?
300
Two of the three most common types of satellite images.
What are infrared, visible, and water vapor?
300
This icy phenomena forms in convective storms and can grow to the size of softballs.
What is hail?
400
Convection through the lower atmosphere.
What happens during severe weather outbreaks?
400
The numerical amount of energy a typical hurricane produces relative to all of the world’s power plants combined.
What is What is 200 times?
400
The measurement from the following list that cannot be sensed from a weather satellite.
(a) fires
(b) sea surface temperature
(c) body temperature
(d) volcanic eruptions
What is body temperature?
400
This phenomena is a rotating cloud that is not in contact with the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
500
It requires eight times the computing power to do this
What is doubling the resolution of a model?
500
The second leading hazard cause of tropical cyclone related deaths.
What is rainfall-induced flooding?
500
Name one of the future series of satellites scheduled for launch in 2016 and 2018.
What is GOES-R or JPSS
500
This layer of the atmosphere lies just above the top of big thunderstorms and is where the ozone layer resides.