This main cloud type is indicative of vertical development.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
These straight, horizontal lines mark the different pressure levels on a Skew-T.
What are Isobars?
100
This type of satellite remains at a fixed point above the equator, with an orbital speed equal to the rotation speed of the Earth.
What is a Geostationary Orbiting Satellite?
100
This is the type of radiation emitted by a radar when scanning a target.
What is Electromagnetic Radiation?
100
This type of storm on a radar forms in a linear fashion.
What is a Squall Line/QLCS?
200
This cloud prefix is indicative of mid-level clouds
What is Alto-?
200
These dashed, diagonal lines are used in conjunction with Dew Point values on a Skew-T.
What are Saturation Mixing Ratio lines?
200
This type of satellite imagery looks at image brightness (albedo), with brighter images typically depicting high clouds or snow.
What is Visible Imagery?
200
This type of scanning strategy transmits one pulse at a horizontal orientation, and another in the vertical orientation, to determine size and shape of the target and help differentiate between precipitation types.
What is Dual-Polarization?
200
This type of storm on radar has a Forward Flank Downdraft, Rear Flank Downdraft, Hook Echo and can produce tornados.
What is a Supercell?
300
Cloud 1
What are Mammatus Clouds?
300
This is the level in the atmosphere at which a parcel of air can begin to rise on it's own, found on a Skew-T by following the moist adiabatic lapse rate up until it crosses the environmental temperature line. (Full name, no acronym)
What is the Level of Free Convection?
300
This type of satellite imagery is available 24 hours a day, using "temperature" to differentiate between the surface and clouds.
What is Infrared imagery?
300
This type of scan pattern provides a full view of each scan from every elevation angle, and is a product most mobile smart phones have access to.
What is Full Volumetric Scan?
300
Radar 1
What is an Outflow Boundary?
400
Cloud 2
What are Scud Clouds?
400
This is the temperature an air parcel would have at the surface once it reached saturation, measured by following the moist adiabatic lapse rate down to the surface.
What is the Wet-Bulb Temperature?
400
This type of imagery is help for determining the moisture content of the middle/upper levels of the atmosphere.
What is Water Vapor Imagery?
400
This radar parameter compares the horizontal and vertical characteristics between each pulse to measure uniformity in the scan volume.
What is the Correlation Coefficient?
400
Radar 2
What is a Supercell?
500
Cloud 3
What is a Shelf Cloud?
500
This parameter measures stability in the atmosphere, when the parcel is cooler than its surrounding environment, making it harder to reach the LFC. (Full name, no acronym)
What is Convective Inhibition?
500
This satellite has taken over as the GOES-East satellite currently in use by the United States.
What is GOES-16?
500
When you see this precipitation on a radar, it will likely be highly reflective with very low correlation coefficient.