Fog
What is fog?
What is a cloud, usually stratus based at the ground level
Rising current of warm air.
What is thermal turbulence
The process of cooling air through expansion.
What is adiabatic cooling
This is a wispy cloud
What is Cirrus
The term for very small water droplets
What is drizzle
the fog that radiates from the surface
What is radiation fog
Friction in the air.
What is mechanical turbulence
The process of heating dry air through compression.
What is adiabatic heating
This cloud blankets the sky
What is stratus cloud
This is a type of soft hail
What are snow pellets
This fog moves horizontally over cool land as long as it is being fed by warm sea air
What advection fog
Strong bursts of wind.
What is wind gusts
The rate at which temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.
What is lapse rate ~ 2 degrees per 1000 feet
This weather cloud can potentially blow through the tropopause and may cause violent turbulence.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud (thunderstorm)
These pellets are translucent in nature
What are ice pellets
This fog has tiny ice crystals suspended in cold calm conditions
What is ice fog
Dramatic change in wind speed and direction.
What is wind shear
The atmosphere's ability to resist vertical motion.
What is a stable atmosphere
A ceiling occurs when the following sky condition ________ covers between ________ to _________ parts of the sky
What is broken -- from 5/8 to 8/8 parts
Another form of super cooled water, this may result in a large ice balls and can cause significant damage to an airplane in a matter of seconds.
What is hail
This fog is caused by the cooling of air due to expansion moves up slope.
What is upslope fog
Produces clear air turbulence.
What is high-level wind shear
The name given to the part of the atmosphere which planes fly is know as the
What is the troposphere
If you MUST fly through a thunder cloud what must you do
What is hold the attitude and power constant and ride with the up and down drafts
The greatest horizontal distance that is sometimes affected by precipitation at which you can see big objects with the naked eye is known as this.
What is visibility and is measure in SM