Contours
As a general rule, contours should never ___.
What is cross/branch/fork
what is the speed of a wind barb with one full pennant?
What is 10 knots
Which layer in the atmosphere acts like a cap on the vertical movement in the troposphere?
Stratosphere
What is the leeward side
Closed contours most likely to occur near the...
What is the surface?
Flags/Pennants on a wind barb point towards __ Pressure
What is Low
Dry adiabatic lines on a skew t diagram represent the rising motion of ____ parcels
unstaturated
The equation to calculate windspeed
What is √u2+v2
Close temperature lines and strong winds in advection creates
What is Stronger gradient
If you saw the four letters "DRSN" on a metar what would that tell you?
what is there is currently drifting snow
What times (Z) are soundings typically taken?
What is 00Z and 12Z
what is cold air mass towards cool air
Gradients point towards...
What is Maximum Increase
What is this piece of a metar telling us?
PKWND 30031/0235
What is a peak wind occurred at 02:35z from 300 degrees at 31 knots
If a Skew-T showed temperature and dew point meeting 1km above the ground with all above freezing temps below it what kind of precipitation would you expect?
What forces drive the circulation of a Hadley Cell?
What is Rotation of the earth and the ITCZ (Intertropical convergence zone)
What Is an isotach?
what is a contour of wind speed
What 8 observations are taken as part of a Generic Station Plot?
What are cloud cover, wind speed, wind direction, sea-level pressure, temperature, dew point, present weather, pressure tendency
The daytime boundary layer is ____ deep
what is 1000-2000 m?
What is it called when winds flow slower than the height gradient is suggesting?
What is sub-geostrophic