Atmosphere
The four layers of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
Cold & Dry air that comes from Canada
What is a Continental Polar air mass?
The tool that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer
High thin, white, feathery clouds made of ice crystals
What are Cirrus clouds
The tail of the weather station model.
What is the wind direction.
The layer of the atmosphere that is the coldest
what is the mesosphere
An air mass coming from Mexico.
What is Continental Tropical air Mass?
What is wind speed.
This clouds forms during thunderstorms and can have a mesocyclone within it.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud
What is overcast or 100% cloud cover
Layer that contains our ozone layer and a temperature inversion
What is the stratosphere?
An Occluded Front
This develops within thunderstorm clouds when charge differences between the ground starts to meet and forms a path.
What is the Step Leader.
Mid level, blanket like cloud. made of a mixture of ice crystals and water droplets
What is altostratus
What is 986.7 mb?
Sub layer found within the Thermosphere that protects us from the solar weather.
What is the Magnetosphere.
The front that comes with gentle rain, and leaves behind warmer weather
What is a warm front
The last stage of a thunderstorm's life cycle
What is the dissipating stage.
The two characteristics that help us identify clouds
What is altitude & shape.
A front represented by isotherms decreasing as they move closer to the inside of an isolated circle.
What is a cold Front.
The two layers with a temperature inversion
What is the Stratosphere and Thermosphere
How air masses are classified.
What is temperature & source region (moisture)
The scale used for classifying tornadoes by their damage.
What is the enhanced fujita scale.
A rare phenomenon type of cloud.
What is mammatus, or morning glory, or lenticular, or kevin Helmzholts clouds
A line drawn to connect points of equal pressure.
What is an isobar