Air Masses
Fronts
More Air Masses and Fronts
Met Random
Even More Random
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Air Mass is defined as a body of air with these two uniform characteristics in the horizontal
Temperature and Moisture
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A Front is defined as this
Transition zone between two air masses
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The moisture content of cA
Dry
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When the Coriolis Force and the Pressure Gradient Force or in balance, or equal, the wind is said to be this.
Geostrophic
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A water droplet that remains liquid at a temperature below freezing is said to be this.
Super cooled
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The two types of airmasses in relation to moisture
Dry, (Continental), and Moist, (Maritime)
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The Canadian Weather name for Occlusion and the breakdown of the acronym
TROWAL : Trough of Warm Air Aloft
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The general temperature of cP
cool, between cold and warm
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This is the term for Storms closest to the Radar site reflecting and absorbing most of the radar energy, and as a result, only a reduced amount of energy is available to detect distant storms.
Beam Attenuation
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Light Winds would have this impact on Advective Fog
Thickening the Fog
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The three types of air masses in relation to temperature
Cold (Arctic), Intermediate (Polar), Warm (Tropical)
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A warm front has this slope ratio
1:200
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This image refers to this kind of front
Stationary / quasi stationary
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Only Murders in the Building
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This term refers to whether or not a parcel of air has potential for rising or being lifted
Atmospheric Stability
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The modification of an Air Mass depends on these three things
Speed of movement, moisture of the area being travelled over, temperature between the two airmasses and the surface
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Types of weather found at a front with a slope of 1:50
Convective and showery
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If Taylor Swift walked from the right side of the page to the left side of the page, the temperature would do this.
Decrease
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Clouds form when water vapor condenses. Frost forms when water vapour goes through this process.
Deposition
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The atmosphere is mainly heated and cooled by these two processes
Conduction and Terrestrial Radiation
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These are the major Canadian Air Masses
cA, mA, mP, mT ... sometime cT in the summer in the southern portions of BC.
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The difference between a Cold Occlusion and a Warm Occlusion
Cold, the front is ahead of the occlusion
Warm, the occlusion is ahead of the front
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Given the following, PL, RA, SN, FZRA, in the winter, you are approaching a warm front from the cold air side. In what order will you experience the various types of precipitation?
SN, PL, FZRA, RA
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According to "From the Ground Up", these are 3 principal properties of the atmosphere.
What is mobility, capacity for expansion, and capacity for compression.
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When flying through a cold front from warm air to cold air it is normal to expect the temperature to _______, the dew point temperature to _______and the wind direction to ________.
Fall, Fall, Veer