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Temperature Inversions
Hadley Cells
El Niño
Clouds
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A situation where temperature inversions would develop near the ground.
What are clear, calm, nights?
100
Large cells of rotating air that tend to stay near the equator.
What are Hadley Cells?
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During an El Niño year, the storm systems head towards this area.

What is the eastern pacific?

100
Clouds that are high, white, and thin.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
A form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
What is sleet?
200
With temperature inversions, these are usually greater during the afternoon.
What are mixing depths?
200
Hadley cells contain both rising and sinking air.
What is the kind of air Hadley cells contain?
200
Temperatures increase along the side of South America in this kind year.
What is an El Niño?
200
Clouds that consist of rounded individual cloud masses
What are Cumulus Clouds?
200
Rain that is produced from the lifting of moist air over a mountain.
What is Orographic lifting?
300
When air sinks lower and is compressed.
The overall temperature increases
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the movement caused by a gas by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in the transfer of heat.
What is Convection?
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These warm up along the eastern pacific during an El Niño year.
What are Ocean Temperatures?
300
Clouds that are sheets or layers that cover much or all of the sky.
What are Stratus Clouds?
300
When air is allowed to expand, it cools, and when it is compressed, it warms
What are Adiabatic Temperature Changes?
400
A situation where these trap pollution in a pocket of air.
What are Temperature inversions?
400
As part of the global wind systems, air sinks at around 30' latitude north and south of the equator. This causes belts of high pressure and contributes to the formation of these.
What are Deserts?
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With the onset of El Niño warm water blocks the upwelling of this.
What is Cold Water?
400
Cloud that causes rain and thunderstorms.
What are Cumulonimbus Clouds?
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The temperature to which a parcel of air would need to be cooled to reach saturation.
What is the Dew Point?
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It varies w/ altitude.

What is air temperature?

500

From the equator to mid-latitudes.

What is the location of Hadley cells?

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La Niña

What is the opposite of El Niño?

500

They start with Strat or Nimbo.

What are the prefixes for low clouds?

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a device used to measure air pressure.
What is a Barometer?