Clouds
Tropical Systems
Weather Department Lore
Advanced Meteorology
Weather Instruments
100
What type of cloud is this?
What is Cirrus Clouds?
100
What direction do tropical cyclones rotate?
What is cyclonic/counterclockwise?
100
Who's the Department Chair?
What is Dr. Guinn?
100
What is the greek letter that describes density?
What is Rho?
100
A sensor that measures pressure
What is a barometer
200
Types of cloud is associated with a Warm Front?
What is Stratiform Clouds?
200
What is a tropical cyclone in the west pacific called?
What is a typhoon?
200
Who has been in the Weather Department the longest?
What is Professor Debbie Shaum?
200
What law describes the relationship between Pressure, Volume, Temperature, Density?
What is the Ideal Gas Law?
200
Detects precipitation intensity, wind direction, and speed, providing early warnings for severe weather.
What is Doppler Radar?
300
Cloud suffix connects the cloud with rain?
What is -nimbus?
300
What is the intensity requirement for a major hurricane?
What is 100 knots?
300
Who says
WOW THATS A LOT OF ENERGY????
What is Dr. Christopher Herbster?
300
A measure of the rotation of a fluid, or the twisting motion in the troposphere?
What is vorticity?
300
Attached to weather balloons to measure temperature, humidity, and pressure at various altitudes.
What is a Radiosonde
400
The FULL name of a storm cloud that reach through all cloud levels AND has an Anvil top?
What is Cumulonimbus Incus?
400
What are the six ingredients for TC formation and development?
What are warm sea surface, low shear, high moisture, conditional instability, a pre-exisiting disturbance, and being at least 3 degrees from the equator?
400
How many years has AMS/NWA been an RSO at ERAU DB?
What is 21 years?
400
What is the hydrostatic balance?
dP/dz = -rho*g
400
Measures the height of cloud bases, useful in aviation and meteorology.
What is a Ceilometer.
500
This type of cloud is indicative of a very unstable mixing layer?
What is altocumulus castellenous?
500
Which climatic pattern provides a generally upward or downward movement of air that affects TC development
What is the Madden-Julian Oscillation
500
What is Wadler's favorite Derivation?
What is the Clausius Clapyeron?
500
What is the full equation to find the saturation vapor pressure?
e_s = e_0 exp^((L_s /R_v)((1/T_0)-(1/T)))
500
Measures solar radiation, important for solar energy studies.
Pyranometer