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Weather Flashcards

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Weather elements

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Speed and Direction of wind
Humidity
Air tempt and pressure
Type and amt of cloudiness and precip

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State of atmos at a given time and place

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Weather

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2
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4 spheres

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Bio
Litho
Atmos
Hydro

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The ee that continually occur between the spheres and the earth’s surface causes

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Energy exchange

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4
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Bs carry r

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Balloons, radiosondes

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5
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Other ways to study weather

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Weather
Airplanes
Rockets
Satellites

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6
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Parts of atmos

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Meso
Exo
Strat
Thermo
Trop
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7
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Most of weath occurs

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Tropo

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8
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19% of earth’s gases are here. Ozone

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Strat

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9
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Meteorites burn up here

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Meso

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10
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Hottest layer bc

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High energy waves absorbed from sun, thermos

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11
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Molecules from atmos escape

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Exos

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12
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Know DMT by

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Max + min tempt of 24 hrs / 2

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13
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DTR formula

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Max - min tempt

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14
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Sum of daily means / number of days in months

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Monthly mean tempt

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15
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Average of 12 monthly tempts

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Annual mean tempt

16
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Warmest - coldest mean tempt

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Annual tempt range

17
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Tempt controls

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Geog posi
Altitude
Albedo 
Cloud cover
Ocean currents
Differential heating of land and water
18
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Lines that connect points of the same tempt

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Isotherms

19
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Primary control of daily tempt

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Earth’s rotation

20
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Most mechanical thermometers are based on ghe ability of a substance to

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Expand when heated, contract when cooled

21
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Instrument continuously recording temperature

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Thermograph

22
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Electrical thermometers use ts to measure tempt

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Thermistor

23
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Difft temperature scales use difft

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Reference pts/fixed pts

24
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Ic and steam pt of fahrenheit scale

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32, 212

25
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Tempt where all molecular motion is presumed to cease

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Absolute zero

26
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Ic and steam pt of kelvin

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273 and 373

27
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Common applications of tempt indices

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Cooling, heating, growing

28
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Each degree of tempt below 65 F is counted as one HD a day

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Heating degree days

29
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Subtracting 65 deg from daily mean

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Cooling degree day

30
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DMT - base tempt of crop = minimum tempt for it to grow

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Growing degree days

31
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Summertime discomfort links H and Tempt to determine thermal comf of human bod

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Heat stress index, humidity, tempt

32
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Uses w and a tempt to calculate human sensation of tempt

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Wind chill

33
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Additional and relatively rapid change induced by human acts

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Climate change

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