Atmosphere
The atmosphere and space as one medium.
What is Aerospace?
Boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
Microburst
What is thunderstorms?
Condition results in optical phenomenon
What is whiteout?
Temperature is the measure
What is heat?
Cold and dry air mass.
What is Continental Polar?
Warm air mass sandwiched between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
A mass of whirling fluid or air
What is vortices?
Rotation of the Earth affecting movement over the it's surface
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Cloud
What is a high-adversion fog?
Warm Fronts associated with
What are low-pressure cells?
Icing forms flying through supercooled clouds
What is rime?
Amount of water vapor that that can enter the air mass before it is saturated.
What is Relative Humidity?
Cloud with most violent weather.
What is Cumulonimbus?
Lenticular
What is concave-shaped cloud over mountains?
Icing from supercooled rain droplets turned to ice.
What is Glaze?
Elongated area of high pressure.
What is a ridge?
Wind shear
What is change in speed, direction of wind horizontally, downwardly, or upwardly?
Less turbulent side to pilot around mountain range.
What is the Windward side?
Heat given off by condensation of moisture in the warm air can form.
What is a hurricane?