Clouds

Question 1

Adiabatic cooling

Answer 1

Cooling due to rising air, which has less pressure as it climbes and expands

Question 2

Clouds prefexises

Answer 2

Cirru - high level, from 16kft
Alto - mid level, 6500-23000

Question 3

Cumulus

Answer 3

Heaped

Question 4

Stratus

Answer 4

Layered

Question 5

Cirrus

Answer 5

Curl of hair

Question 6

Nimbus

Answer 6

rain bearing

Question 7

Cloud covere in oktas

Answer 7

1-2 few
3-4 scattered
5-7 broken
8 overcast

Question 8

Orographic clouds

Answer 8

Clouds that are formed due to the enforced lifting of air by the earth topography, cooling adiabatically.

Question 9

Cap cloud

Answer 9

Orographic cloud that touches the top of the mountain. if not, its lenticularis

Question 10

Cumulus types

Answer 10

humilis, mediocris, congestus, and cumulinmbus capillatus

Question 11

Fog visibility

Answer 11

<1000m

Question 12

Radiation fog

Answer 12

At night and early hours of morning, formed when lower layers cool rapidly. (more likely with clear skies). formed over land only. Requires mixing of light wind <5kt. Higher wind will make it form stratus, until +15kts which will clear it. If no wind, dew will form

Question 13

Advection fog

Answer 13

Formed by advection of warm and moist air over underlying cool surface. Withstands greater winds.

Question 14

Frontal fog

Answer 14

Occurs in advance of a warm front, when air becoems saturated by rainfall