Review

Question 1

2 types of temperature inversion

Answer 1

Radiation (or nocturnal) inversion—happening on a cool, clear night.

Frontal inversion –where cold air lifts warmer air aloft.

Question 2

Prevents nocturnal temperature inversions

Answer 2

Overcast skies (the greenhouse effect)

Question 3

What layer of the atmosphere does weather occur?

Answer 3

Troposphere

Question 4

Standard pressure

Answer 4

29. 92 hg

1013. 2 mb/hp

Question 5

Isobars

Answer 5

lines connecting points of equal pressure corrected to sea level, usually spaced 4 mb apart

Question 6

Coriolis Force acts

Answer 6

force acts perpendicular to the right of the wind, (or any non-steered objects in the Northern Hemisphere).

Question 7

Surface friction causes

Answer 7

Wind speed to decrease and pushes wind across isobars

Question 8

Buys Ballot’s Law

Answer 8

standing with your back to the wind, in the northern hemisphere, the low will be to your left.

Question 9

Condensation may occur when

Answer 9

the spread is 2°C (4°F) or less.

Question 10

process when solid changes directly to a gas

Answer 10

Sublimation

Question 11

process when vapor changes directly to solid.

Answer 11

Deposition

Question 12

Dry cooling rate

Answer 12

3 degrees

Question 13

Moist cooling rate

Answer 13

1.5 degrees

Question 14

The primary cause of frontal weather

Answer 14

the lifting of warm moist air by colder, more dense air.

Question 15

Type of fog from adiabatic cooling

Answer 15

Upslope fog

Question 16

Type of fog forms by deposition.

Answer 16

Ice fog