Air Compression and Expansion
Processes that Lift Air
Stability
Condensation
Random Facts
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Adiabatic temperature changes are...
What is temperature that isn't added or subtracted?
100
What are the 4 processes that lift air...
What is Orographic Lifting, Frontal Wedging, Convergence, and Localized convective Lifting?
100
The most stable condition is when air temperature increases with height is...
What is temperature inversion?
100
When water vapor changes into a liquid...
What is condensation?
100
What are temperature changes that happen when heat is not there is
What is adiabatic temperature changes?
200
When air is (blank) its compressed.
What is warmed?
200
What occurs when mountains act as barriers...
What is orographic lifting?
200
Temperature inversions frequently happen on...
What is clear nights?
200
What form can condensation be in
What is dew, fog and clouds?
200
What are the 4 important words in the section "Processes that lift air"
What is orographic lifting, frontal wedging, convergence and localized convective lifting?
300
What are the 2 rates of cooling...
What is dry adiabatic rate and wet adiabatic rate?
300
The cooler denser air acts as a barrier over the warmer less dense air that rises
What is frontal wedging?
300
Clouds that have the lifting of unstable air can cause...
What is thunderstorms and tornadoes?
300
For any of these forms to occur what must happen...
What is the air must be saturated?
300
>(air masses coming towards each other)<
What is convergence?
400
What forms of condensation require saturated air to develop...
What is dew, fog and clouds?
400
2 air masses move towards each other and rise up and may produce clouds
What is convergence?
400
This remains in its original position...
What is stable air?
400
When condensation occurs in the air above the ground tiny bits of matter serve as a surface for water vapor condensation
What is condensation nuclei?
400
Warm and cold air coming together is a
What is a front?
500
The wet adiabatic rate varies from...
What is 5-9 degrees Celsius per 100 meters?
500
When warm parcels of air rise above the condensation level clouds form and can cause...
What is mid-afternoon rain showers?
500
This tends to rise...
What is unstable air?
500
What is a good source for condensation nuclei...
What is ocean salt?
500
The wet adiabatic rate varies from
What is 5-9 degrees Celcuis per 1000 meters?