Weather I
This is the name for a scientist who studies the atmosphere and predicts weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
The measurement of the depth of bodies of water and mapping of the ocean floor
What is bathymetry?
While often used interchangeably, this term refers specifically to a *severe* thunderstorm with rotating updrafts, a key ingredient for tornado formation.
What is a supercell?
These are the deepest marine habitat on Earth, and are defined as any environment below 6,000 m
What are hadal zones?
This warm, swift, and well-defined Atlantic current brings tropical waters northward along the eastern coastline of the United States.
What is the Gulf Stream?
These colorful rings of light sometimes appear around the sun or moon, caused by the refraction of light through ice crystals in the atmosphere.
What are halos?
This type of low-altitude, sheet-like cloud often covers the entire sky, resembling a featureless gray blanket.
What are stratus clouds?
The AROME and HARMONIE models are examples of this type of NWP system, which focuses on short-range forecasting (out to 2-3 days) using high resolution and advanced physical parameterizations.
What is a Limited-Area Model (LAM)?
These are self-sustaining ocean waves generated by the interaction of surface waves with internal ocean currents, often characterized by their extremely long wavelengths and periods.
What are internal tides?
Besides water temperature, low vertical wind shear, pre-existing disturbance and a moist mid-level atmosphere, what other requirements are needed for the formation of a Tropical Cyclone?
What are sufficient Coriolis force?
These waves are wind-driven, and are called this when leaving their genesis area.
What is swell?
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What is a virus?
Messages using this precedence require immediate delivery
What is IMMEDIATE?
This form is the LS version of love letter.
What is the DD Form 1348?
This is the timeline for a transfer package to be turned in.
What is NLT 60 days prior to transfer.
A large body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
What is an air mass?
A process of bringing cold, nutrient-rich waters to the ocean surface
What is upwelling?
This index combines atmospheric instability and wind shear to estimate the potential for severe thunderstorm development, with higher values indicating a greater risk.
What is the CAPE-shear index?
This process, driven by density differences caused by variations in temperature and salinity, plays a critical role in global ocean circulation.
What is thermohaline circulation?
This Pacific Ocean circulation pattern is characterized by unusually warm surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific, impacting global weather patterns.
What is El Niño?
A weather phenomenon in which falling rain or snow evaporates before reaching the ground
What is virga?
These towering vertical clouds can produce thunderstorms, heavy rain, hail, and even tornadoes.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
This statistical method is used to improve weather forecasts by combining the output of multiple NWP models, often weighting them based on their past performance.
What is Model Output Statistics (MOS)?
These are localized regions of intense mixing and upwelling that occur along coastlines due to the interaction of tides with complex topography.
What are tidal mixing fronts?
This provides direct measurements of wind speeds, pressure, and temperature within the storm, improving the accuracy of forecasts purpose of in modern Tropical Cyclone forecasting.
What are reconnaissance aircraft?
This characteristic of open water allows winds to build larger waves and increase sea state.
What is fetch?
This address uniquely identifies a specific device on a local network.
What is a MAC address?
This code provides a standardized way to categorize the subject of a naval message.
What is a Subject Indicator Code (SIC)?
This phrase is used when you have no idea where the requested item is.
What is 'It's in transit'?
This is where you find per diem rates for your current/new duty station?
What is DTMO (Defense Travel Management Office)
A visible funnel-shaped rotation, extending from the base of a cumuliform cloud or thunderstorm
What is a tornado?
The name of the deepest known point in the world's oceans.
What is the Mariana Trench?
Named after a Norwegian meteorologist, this model describes the formation, development, and dissipation of mid-latitude cyclones.
What is the Polar Front Theory (or the Norwegian Cyclone Model)?
These slow-growing, potato-shaped rocks found on the deep ocean floor are rich in valuable metals like manganese, nickel, and copper.
What are manganese nodules?
This large, circular flow of ocean currents is driven by global wind patterns and the Earth's rotation, found in major ocean basins.
What is a gyre?
This rare weather event is caused by ice crystals oriented in a certain direction reflect the sun upward
What are light pillars?
This is the name for the high-altitude, wispy clouds made of ice crystals and often associated with fair weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
This mathematical concept, central to chaos theory, explains the sensitivity of weather forecasts to initial conditions, often illustrated by the phrase "flapping its wings in Brazil can set off a tornado in Texas."
What is the Butterfly Effect?
Submarines can leverage this zone to enable oceanic long-range sound propagation, which is crucial in naval warfare.
What is the deep sound channel?
This meteorological phenomena has made predicting and tracking tropical cyclones more difficult, and is believed to cause more intense storms.
What is Climate Change?
Higher levels of this property of water result in sound traveling further, and vary based on proximity to rainfall and riverheads.
What is salinity?
This process non-destructively transforms data into a form that can only be read by its intended recipient.
What is encryption?
This is the maximum number of characters that may be included on one line.
What is 69?
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What is CCC- AG1 Dalton
This is the minimum timeline that a RED/DA needs to be checked.
What is annually?
The name for lines that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure on a weather map
What are isobars?
A ring-shaped coral reef, island, or chain of islands that forms a lagoon.
What is an atoll?
This phenomenon, caused by ice crystals reflecting sunlight, often appears as bright pillars of light extending above or below the sun.
What are sun pillars?
This is the scientific study of bioluminescent organisms and the biochemical reactions behind them in marine environments.
What is marine photobiology?
This current is a cold, southward-flowing current along the western coast of South America, known for its nutrient-rich waters that support abundant marine life.
What is the Humboldt Current (or the Peru Current)?
This atmospheric optical phenomenon occurs when sunlight is refracted and dispersed in water droplets, creating a spectrum of colors in the sky.
What is a rainbow?
These are the puffy, mid-level clouds sometimes described as "sheep's wool", often appearing in patches or layers.
What are altocumulus clouds?
This data assimilation technique uses a series of short-range forecasts to estimate the evolving state of the atmosphere, providing a more accurate initial condition for subsequent forecasts.
What is the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF)?
The Sverdrup balance explains this phenomenon, which is the general slowing of the ocean circulation in response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)?
This is the non-dimensional number used to categorize the relative balance between pressure gradient force, Coriolis force, and centrifugal force in a tropical cyclone's circulation.
What is the Rossby number?
Measuring this can help determine the energy present in the sea state, and is the most common wave measurement.
What is significant wave height?
This type of security threat does target technical weaknesses, it targets human factors.
What is social engineering?
This is our PLAD.
What is NAVOCEANASWCEN? (must be spelled right!)
Before 2009, what was the LS rate?
What is storekeeper?
This shows your pay disbursement split by allowances.
What is an LES?
This scale is used to measure the intensity of tornadoes based on the damage they cause.
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?
This is a standing wave in an enclosed or partially enclosed body of water.
What is a seiche?
The geostrophic wind is a theoretical wind that results from a balance between these two forces.
What are the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force?
This geological theory explains the process of the creation of insular landmasses via tectonic or volcanic activity.
What is emergent land?
The movement of ocean water in a vertical direction caused by winds, temperature and salinity differences
What is upwelling or downwelling?
This weather phenomenon is a sudden heavy downfall of rain along a very narrow area.
What is a rain bomb?
This mid-level cloud is composed of ice crystals or water droplets and often appears as a grayish or bluish-gray sheet, sometimes covering the entire sky.
What are altostratus clouds?
This refers to the process of adjusting the parameters within a weather forecasting model to improve its performance, often using historical data and optimization algorithms.
What is parameterization tuning?
This refers to the process by which organisms in the ocean produce dimethyl sulfide, a volatile sulfur compound that can influence cloud formation and climate.
What is biogenic sulfur production?
This process, vital for tropical cyclone intensification, involves the turbulent transfer of heat and moisture from the ocean surface into the storm's boundary layer, increasing the equivalent potential temperature.
What is air-sea enthalpy flux?
Predicting this is important to understand how sea state will affect a ship’s sonar performance.
What is the Mixed Layer Depth?
This type of cyber attack involves inundating a system with fake traffic, making the service inaccessible to legitimate users.
What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)?
This is the FASTEST message precedence.
What is Flash Override?
This is the number of signatures required to get printer paper.
What is four?
New Check ins need to do a travel voucher within this time frame.
What is 5 working days?
This gradient is an acoustic property of seawater, often caused by surface heating, can cause sound rays to bend upward.
What is Positive?
This boundary between two water masses with different densities can reflect sound
What is a front?
This phenomenon caused by marine life and other underwater noise can disrupt submarine detection and communication.
What is NL/acoustic masking?
This is a theoretical framework for describing the movement of chemical elements and compounds through the ocean, considering sources, sinks, and transformations.
What is biogeochemical cycling?
Swell can negatively impact this aspect of vessels on the XYZ plane.
What is stability?
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model has seven layers of abstraction. What is the fifth layer, that is after Transport, but before Presentation?
What is the Session layer?