Equation Station
What is the Hydrostatic Equilibrium?
What is frontogenesis
The formation or strengthening of a front, increase in potential temperature gradient, tightening/packing of isenotropes
What does the CIN stand for?
Convectibve inhibition
PVA and NVA are why kind of cyclonic?
PVA= cyclonic
NVA= anticyclonic
What winds turn counter clockwise with height?
Backing
If you are given the U and V, how can you determine the wind speed magnitude?
The square root of U^2 + V^2
Which term has winds in opposite directions on either side of a front?
What is shearing
What happens to decrease CIN?
- warming and moistening of the air near the surface
-forced ascent form a front
advection
daytime heating of the earth's surface
Which character is vertical motion? w or omega
w
What term has differences in vertical motion?
Tilting
The level of free convection, it will rise
What is the left side of the vorticity equation?
Tendency term
What is the thermal wind equation?
Vth=Vg2-Vg1 = delta z/ delta x
Uth = Ug2-Ug1 = -delta z / delta y
What time is it currently in UTC time?
add four hours to the time rn
Which term occurs is related to the front parallel wind?
Shearing
What happens if Cape is larger than zero?
What is the last two terms of the vorticity equation?
tilting
What does the strength of an updraft determine? (4 things)
How heavy precip is
How large hail is
Wind strength
Whether a tornado forms / not
What do T and T naught stand for in the Buoyancy equation
Skyler does not know
Which term is related to the front normal wind?
Confluence (convergence)
What is the unit for CIN
J/KG
What is the third component of the vorticity equation on the right side?
stretching term
What are the equation of motion terms in order?
Advection
PGF
CF
Friction
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