Winds Around the Globe
This causes the winds to deflect to the right in the northern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
A large volume of air that has the same temperature and humidity throughout.
What is an air mass?
A type of cloud that usually houses thunderstorms?
What is cumulonimbus?
One can find weather in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
What is radiation?
This event is caused by the cooling of the tropical pacific ocean.
What is la nina?
The boundary where 2 air masses meet.
What is a front?
The base of a cloud represents this.
What is the lifted condensation level?
The molecule that is responsible for heating the stratosphere.
Humidity measures the amount of this.
What is water vapor?
The wind system that steer weather across North America.
What is the westerlies?
The air mass that results in temperatures in the 80s with dew points in the 70s.
What is maritime tropical?
Latent heat is released by this process.
What is condensation?
The temperature at top of the mesosphere is what compared to the bottom?
What is colder?
High clouds are composed of this.
What are ice crystals?
The calm region found at the equator where the trade winds converge?
What is the intertropical convergence zone?
What is maritime polar?
Clouds that produce a "water sun".
What are altostratus?
The international space station can be found in this atmospheric layer.
What is the thermosphere?
Trade winds blow from this direction in the southern hemisphere.
What is southeast?
The air pressure at the horse latitudes.
What is high pressure?
The front with weather similar to a cold front.
What is occluded front?
The cloud layer that results in continuous rain or snow.
What is nimbostratus?
The percentage of the atmosphere's air molecules found in the troposphere.
What is 90%?
Type of thunderstorm that spawns most tornadoes.
What is a supercell?