Air Movement
The primary cause of air movement.
What are differences in air pressure?
The process of water vapor changing into liquid water.
What is condensation?
The lines on a weather map that connects points of equal temperatures.
What are isotherms?
The type of air mass associated with cold ocean water.
What is mP (maritime Polar)?
Where air tends to rise in a global circulation cell.
What is at the equator?
This happens to air as it rises in the atmosphere.
What is it cools and expands?
The type of air mass that’s most likely to have high humidity and high temperatures.
This shows the current weather conditions at a specific location.
What is a weather station model?
The major hurricane factor.
What is warm ocean water?
The global wind pattern that blows from west to east in the mid latitudes
What are the Westerlies?
The name of the type of system over the poles that causes air to descend.
What is high pressure?
This leads to precipitation
What is rising air cools, and water vapor condenses?
A barometric pressure of 994.8. Mb would be written on a station model as…
What is 948?
Warm air holds more than cold air.
What is more moisture?
The uneven heating of the Earth’s surface is the major cause of this.
What is atmospheric circulation?
The type of front associated with intense rainfall and thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
What happens to hurricanes if global temperatures increase.
What is they will become more intense?
A weather station states the barometric pressure as 012.
What is 1001.2 mb?
What a station model indicates about wind.
What is wind speed and direction?
This is true about warm air vs cold air on a molecular scale
What is less dense than cool air and rises?
The global wind pattern that blows from east to west in the tropics.
The amount of solar radiation reaching Earth’s surface.
What is insolation?
This indicates that precipitation may occur
What is equal/nearly equal dewpoint and temperature?
Type of air mass that forms over Canada
What is cP (continental polar)?
How the Earth’s rotation influences wind direction.
What is the Coriolis Effect?