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Met Thursday Flashcards

1
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Warm front length

A

600 to 800km / NM

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2
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Clouds in warm front, depending on season (summer and winter)

A

Fair weather cumulus in summer

Stratus in winter

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3
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From warm front front, how long until it starts to rain

A

6 hours

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4
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Warm occlusion, coldest air is

A

In front

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5
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Cold occlusion

A

Coldest air behind

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6
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Back bent occlusion

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Resulted in front coming back in on itself

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7
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Cold air pools (result of polar air outbreak)

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Cold pool of air above warm layer

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8
Q

Jet streams are based on

A

Temperature differences

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9
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Tropical revolving storms. Can only happen when water is warmer than

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26⚫️c

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10
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Easterly waves happening in july.

These happen around

A

East of Caribbean

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11
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Mesoscale convective areas are

A

The stage before a cyclone / tropical storm.

It’s also a tropical storm not quite fully developed

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12
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TRS is greater than… (knots)

A

63

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13
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Most amount of hurricanes in the world are in the

A

Philippines (32%). They’re called typhoons there

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14
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Annual amount of cyclones on the NE coast of Australia

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9 per season

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15
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Annual amount of cyclones occurring in the North Atlantic

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12 per season

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16
Q

A name of a storm is given when TRS reaches the

A

Tropical storm stage.

17
Q

2 monsoons a year:

A 
North east monsoon (Siberia)
Southwest monsoon (Arizona)
18
Q

Characteristic of a tropical rain climate

A

Relative Humidity: 80%
Freezing level: 15000ft
Average temperature: 28⚫️c

19
Q

Characteristics of a polar climate

A

Mean temperature of all months is below +10⚫️C

20
Q

Tundra =

A

Snow

21
Q

Prevailing westerlies on latitude =

A

50⚫️N

22
Q

En-route VOLMET/ D-VOLMET

A

Both VHF and HF VOLMET transmit TAF

TAF comes from meteorological offices

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