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| light and other forms or radiation, heat, motion, electrical power |
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| reservior behind hydroelectric dam, high pressure, 5 types of chemical potential energy: battery, gasoline, firewood, explosives, and food |
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| solar radiation to Earth: concentrated in shorter wavelengths, ultraviolet visible, and shortwave infrared |
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| earth's infrared emission to space: longer wavelengths, thermal infrared (heat energy) |
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reflective quality of a surface; expressed as a percentage
a function of: surface color, surface texture, and angle of incidence |
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| what is in the thermosphere? |
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| what is in the mesosphere? |
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| what is in the stratosphere |
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| what is in the troposphere? |
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| adiabatic processes: as the air parcel cools internally... |
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| it expands under lower air pressure |
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| adiabatic processes: as the air parcel heats internally |
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| is is compressed by higher air pressure |
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| if the air is warmer, there is a greater/lesser capacity to hold water vapor |
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| if the air is cooler, there is a greater/lesser capacity to hold water vapor? |
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| large air and ocean masses tend to follow curved paths due to rotation of the Earth |
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| magnitude of the coriolis effect on a moving body increases as... |
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| path increases, time of motion increases, number of latitudes crossed increases, farther north or south traveled, and as size increases |
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narrow bands of high-velocity winds
flow from west to eat
high latitudes |
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| boundary separating air masses of different temperatures or moisture content |
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| cold air is moving into warm air |
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| what clouds does a cold front cause? |
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| cumulonimbus and cumulous |
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| what clouds does a warm front cause? |
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| stratus and stratocumulus |
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| warm air is moving into cold air |
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| low pressure rotates to the |
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| high pressure rotates to the |
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| cyclones are _____ pressure |
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| anticyclones are _____ pressure |
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| jet stream -> diverging air -> trough -> converging air -> ridge |
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| thunderstorms are associated with... |
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| heavy rains, flash floods, hail, lightning, and high-speed winds |
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| spherical, layered ball of ice, released from thunderstorms |
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1. large thunderstorms with buoyant hot air rising from heated ground
2. upper-level cold air (contrast in temperature)
3. strong updrafts-keep hailstones suspended while ice layers added and hailstone grows |
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| tornadoes are measured on what scale? |
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| enhanced fujita scale EF0-EF5 |
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| 3 things that make tornado alley prime |
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1. warm air coming from gulf of Mexico into the west
2. cold/dry air that reaches the Midwest from the west/north
3. Presence of the jet stream |
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| when do we usually get tornadoes? |
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| april, may, june (spring-summer) |
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| what category was the Roanoke tornado? |
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| cities are warmer than other areas because there are more people, more pollution, more buildings, more albedo, and more blacktop streets and parking lots |
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| air temperature and the humidity |
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525 deaths over a period of 5 days in July
even hot at night/never cooled down
people were brought to cooling centers, given box fans, etc. |
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| how to minimize severe weather hazards |
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| prediction, forecasting, watches and warnings, mitigation, educate, insurance, prepare, advise, etc. |
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