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Lecture 20: Atmosphere 2 Flashcards

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What does Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures say?

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The mixture of gasses can be expressed as the sum of partial pressures and this represents their concentration

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How is Latent Heat affected when going from condensation of water vapor to liquid vapour?

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Latent heat is released

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How is Melting of Ice Negative Feedback?

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The melting of ice causes the surrounding air to cool, buffering the melting

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What is Saturation Pressure?

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The partial pressure of water at saturation in the air

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What does Saturation Pressure represent?

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The maximum amount of water vapor that air can hold when in equilibrium with liquid water or ice at a particular temperature

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What is Relative Humidity?

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The partial pressure of water divided by the saturation pressure

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7
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What can occur if relative humidity is 100%?

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Condensation can occur

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8
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What can change Relative humidity?

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The partial pressure of water vapor and or the temperature

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How does Relative Humidity change as the temperature goes up and water vapor stays the same?

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Relative humidity will decrease while temperature increases

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What is the Adiabatic Lapse rate?

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The rate at which the atmosphere’s temperature decreases with elevation or altitude in the atmosphere

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What is Nucleation energy?

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When the first drop of condensation requires energy rather than releasing latent heat

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What can Nucleation result in?

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Clouds and condensation

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What forms instead of ice with High Nucleation energy and why?

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High nucleation energy inhibits ice formation between certain temperatures so instead Supercooled water droplets form

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What do Supercooled water droplets in high nucleation energy release?

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Vapor that condenses on ice crystals, and clouds that can then fall as snow

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When do Clouds form?

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When moist and warm air rises and becomes cooler in Adiabatic cooling

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What are the four ways of cloud formation?

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  • Density lifting
  • Frontal lifting
  • Orographic lifting
  • Convergence lifting
17
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Why does Density lifting occur?

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Because warm, lower density air rises and expands

18
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When does Frontal Lifting occur?

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When the movement of air masses drives warm air over cold air

19
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What occurs in Orographic Lifting?

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Mountain ranges force air masses to rise causing clouds to form

20
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What occurs in Convergence lifting?

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Air masses collide forcing them to rise and form clouds

21
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What are the 3 major cloud types?

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Cumulus, Stratus, and Cirrus

22
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What are clouds mainly classified by?

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Their shape and altitude/position

23
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What do Cirrus clouds look like?

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Wispy summer clouds

24
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What do Stratus clouds look like?

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Low cloudy day clouds

25
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What do Cumulus clouds look like?

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Rolling shade summer clouds

26
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What is an accurate description of Cumulus clouds?

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Flat base and a domed top

27
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Where do Cumulus clouds form?

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In lower altitudes

28
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What is an accurate description of Stratus clouds?

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Horizontal extensive flat layers

29
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When and where do stratus clouds typically form?

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Stratus clouds typically form at low altitudes where where warm air spread over cold air

30
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What is an accurate description of Cirrus clouds and when and where do they form?

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Wispy and high altitude that typically form above 6km and they are typical ice-particle clouds

31
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What are Cumulonimbus clouds associated with?

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Rain and lightning

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What are Nimbostratus clouds associated with and what do they look like?

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Flat clouds that cover the entire sky associated with heavy rain or snow

33
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How do Stratocumulus clouds form and what are they associated with?

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When cumulus clouds merge to form a semi continuous layer that look pillowy and forms no condensation

34
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What is the ultimate driving force of atmospheric circulation, weather and climate and ocean currents?

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Solar Radiation

35
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What is energy flux?

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The amount of energy in an electromagnetic wave that passes perpendicularly through a unit surface area per time measures in watts per square meter

36
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What is the flux of any point on earth dependant on?

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The angle at which solar radiation intercepts the surface. It is lower away from the equator

37
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What causes seasons?

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The tilt of the earth

38
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What does Precession determine?

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Which hemisphere points towards the sun at certain points in its orbit

39
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What is the only orbital factor that can affect incoming solar flux?

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Eccentricity

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