Observe and Report on Weather. Topic 1: Climate and weather Flashcards
What is climate?
Climate is information gathered daily and seasonally about weather events over. long period of time. This is the summarised to help describe the climate of a place or region.
What is microclimate?
A microclimate is an area where weather is modified either purposefully or by chance in the landscape.
What are examples of microclimates that might be on your property?
A windbreak planted beside a paddock modifies the wind velocity of that area. Erecting a cover over seedlings when temperatures are expected to drop to prevent frost damage is considered to be creating a microclimate.
Topography can change the amount of rain that falls on either side of ridges and escarpments and the direction and velocity of the wind will be varied.
Planting colonizing plants to protect tubestock in areas that are being regenerated changes the microclimate while the plants are maturing.
Wheather can be quite our to character with the _____ of _____.
averages
climate
Weather occurs in the _______, this is the inner layer of atmosphere immediately above the earth’s surface?
Troposphere
It extends 10 to 19 kms above the earth’s surface.
The next layer of the atmosphere above the troposhere, is the __________; this is the layer in which long-range aircraft fly.
stratosphere.
Weather records have been collected since the___________ landed in ____. As European settlement grew so did the collection of data. Before _________ in ______each state monitored and recorded its own weather.
First Fleet
1770
Federation in 1901
Following Federation, the Commonwealth government assumed national responsibility for _______________, so it was on____________ the _____ __ ________came into being and has been a self-contained agency since that time.
meteorological services
1st January 1908
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
Wind speed can be estimated using the _____________ Scale.
Beaufort Wind Strength
