The Atmosphere
The four layers of the atmosphere.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
The two basic types of cloud formation
What is the cumulus and stratus?
the standard mean sea level pressure according to ICAO
What is 29.92 inches of mercury ("Hg) or 1013.2 hectopascals (hPa)?
Relative humidity.
What is once this reaches 100 percent, any addition of water or decrease in temperature will cause precipitation?
Snow pellets.
What is the water region lying below the supercooled region of the cloud is not of great depth, the hailstones do not acquire the hard, transparent covering and arrive at the ground as the type of precipitation seen here?
The term given to the band located at the top of the stratosphere.
What is the stratopause
The cumulus, towering cumulus, and cumulonimbus clouds belong to this category of cloud height
What is the clouds of vertical development?
the law that states that if you stand with your back to the wind, the low pressure area will be on your left side.Buys Ballot's Law.
What is the Buys Ballot's Law?
Dewpoint.
What is temperature nears this, the air will become more saturated?
Isobars.
What is the lines shown here join areas of equal pressure?
The atmospheric layer where most weather occurs because of the presence of water vapour
What is the Troposphere?
the lifting agent is caused by the heating of the ground by the sun
What is convection?
Coriolis force.
What is air moves from a high pressure system to a low pressure system, this force causes the winds to deflect to the right?
The adiabatic process.
What is process of cooling the atmosphere occurs when air is forced to rise and it therefore expands and cools?
The sea breeze.
What is the breeze shown here occurs during the day when the land heats up more rapidly than the water?
The ICAO standard atmosphere.
What is lapse rate of 1.98 degrees/1000 feet, the air is a perfectly dry gas and the mean sea level temperature is 15 C?
when air rises these two things occur, causing condensation and the formation of clouds
What is Expansion and cooling.
A high-pressure system.
What is fair weather is usually associated with this pressure system?
heating process occurs when horizontal movement of cool air over a warm surface allows the cool air to be heated from below
What is Advection
Stratus clouds.
What is the type of cloud shown here forms when air is stable?
a large section of the troposphere with uniform properties of temperature and pressure in the horizontal
What an air mass?.
clouds from which heavy precipitation.
What is Nimbus Clouds?
Counter-clockwise.
What is air moves in this direction around a low pressure area in the northern hemisphere?
The precipitation-induced fog.
What is type of fog associated mostly with warm fronts?
Orographic lift.
What is the type of lift shown here occurs when the sloping terrain forces the air upward?