Overall Questions A Doppler Radar measures direction and speed of moving object A polar orbiting satellite will pass over Tallahassee 14 1 times daily An anvil shaped top is most often associated with cumulonimbus An example of a thermally direct circulation is Hadley Cell Clouds in the tropics tend to move from east to west Consequently which rhyme best describes a rainbow seen in the tropics rainbow in the morning means that sailors should take warning Clouds that appear as bag like sacks hanging from beneath a cloud are Mammatus clouds Considering the curvature effect if vapor pressure exceeds the equilibrium vapor pressure for a 2 m drop this drop it will evaporate Cyclostrophic flow is pressure force gradient flow in which the centripetal acceleration exactly balances the horizontal Detached clouds of delicate wispy and fibrous appearance without shading usually white in color and sometimes of a silky appearance cirrus Due to friction winds in geotropic flow blow compared to the geostrophic wind without friction parallel to isobars During the winter an air mass that moves into coastal sections of Oregon and Washington from the northwest would most likely be mP Hail is usually associated with what cloud type Cumulonimbus Which clouds have the lowest base Stratocumulus If the Northern Hemisphere the isobars are oriented from the SW to the NE with low pressure in the SE The direction of the wind in geostrophic flow will be toward the SW If very cold air is brought indoors and warmed with no change in its moisture content the relative humidity of this air will decrease In middle latitudes which cloud will have the lowest base stratocumulus Light or moderate but steady precipitation is most often associated with clouds nimbostratus Occluded fronts may form as a On a cold day you can see you breath because water condenses On a weather map the transition zone between two air masses with sharply contrasting properties is marked by a front One would expect a cP air mass to be cold and dry Rain falling from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the surface is called virga Suppose you are a pilot who is flying from warm air into cooler air In the cold air even though you altimeter is still indicating the same altitude as it did in the warm air same pressure level in both the cold and warm air you would be flying lower than your altimeter indicates The atmosphere around the earth would rush off into space if the vertical pressure gradient force were not balanced by gravity The cloud with the greatest vertical growth is cumulonimbus The cooling of the ground to produce dew is mainly the result of radiational cooling The equilibrium vapor pressure over an ice crystal is the equilibrium vapor pressure over a cloud drop The force that initially causes the wind to blow is the pressure gradient force The merging of liquid cloud droplets by collision is called coalescence The shape that best describes a large falling raindrop about 5 mm 5000 mm in diameter is parachute with a tube of water around the base The temperature at which you would expect a cloud to become completely glaciated is 40C 40F clockwise The wind around a high pressure area at the surface in the Northern Hemisphere blows The wind around a low pressure area at the surface in the Northern Hemisphere blows Hint include the effect of friction counter clockwise Two air columns extend from sea level up to an altitude of 10 km If one column is cold and the other is warm the air pressure in the cold column will decrease What type of weather front would be responsible for the following weather forecast Cold today with increasing high clouds and rain becoming heavy by this afternoon Slight warmer tomorrow Winds southeasterly becoming westerly to northwesterly by tomorrow morning front warm type occluded What type of weather front would be responsible for the following weather forecast Light rain and cold today with temperatures just below freezing Rain possibly heavy this evening Southeasterly winds shifting to westerly tonight Turning colder with light rain becoming mixed with snow then changing to snow cold type occluded front What type of weather front would be responsible for the following weather forecast Increasing high cloudiness and cold this morning Clouds increasing and lowering this afternoon with a chance of snow rain tonight Precipitation ending tomorrow morning Turning much warmer Winds turning easterly today becoming southeasterly tonight and southwesterly tomorrow warm front What type of weather front would be responsible for the following weather forecast Increasing cloudiness and warm today with the possibility of showers by this evening Turning much colder tonight Winds southwesterly becoming gusty and shifting to northwesterly by tonight cold front When fog burns off it dissipation When the wind blows in a more or less west to east direction the wind flow pattern is called zonal Which below best describes the solute effect droplets removal of pollutants from the atmosphere by cloud Which cloud is the least likely to produce precipitation that reaches the ground cirrocumulus Which cloud will have the highest base cirrostratus Chapter Questions Overall Questions Dew is most likely to form on Clear calm nights All of the following is necessary for cloud formation EXCEPT Warm surface air temperatures Hygroscopic Nuclei small particles on which water vapor can condense or sublime A cloud that forms liquid droplets has a relative humidity of 100 percent with respect to the liquid droplets If ice crystals form in this cloud they will experience the cloud environment as having a relative humidity 100 percent Its raining on only one side of your street The cloud above you is Cumulonimbus High clouds are those that form at altitudes of at least above 20 000 feet You observe a cloud at an altitude of 3000 m This cloud name would have the prefix Alto Where are lenticular clouds most likely form airflow undulates sharpley in the veritcal on the lee side of mountains they form whenever the The most common way for ait to be cooled in order that a cloud may form is by Rising and Expanding The important difference between liquid droplets and ice crystals in a supercooled cloud is that ice crystals grow much more rapidly The conditions that persist along the West Coast of the U S that are conducive to fog formation are Moist air moving over a cold surface The process by which a cloud droplet first forms is Condensation What is
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