READING ASSIGNMENT
CHAPTER 4, 5, 6, 7
 

 

hydrologic cycle transpiration evapotranspiration water budget in equilibrium humidity absolute humidity mixing ratio relative humidity saturation dew point condensation nuclei hygrometer hair hygrometer sling psychrometer wet-bulb temperature dry-bulb temperature environmental lapse rate dry adiabatic rate wet adiabatic rate lifting condensation level (LCL) unstable air stable air neutral air absolute stability temperature inversion air drainage absolute instability conditional instability convectional uplift orographic uplift rainshadow convergent uplift fog advection fog

radiation fog (ground fog) (inversion fog) (valley fog) (tule fog) high inversion fog steam fog clouds cloud forms (3) cloud types (10) lenticular clouds banner cloud Bergeron process vapor pressure virga collision-coalescence cloud seeding precipitation rain snow snow flurries snow squall blizzard sleet glaze (freezing rain) hail wind prevailing winds anemometer wind vane windward leeward air pressure barometers isobars steep pressure gradient weak pressure

gradient cyclones anticyclones Coriolis force equatorial low belt polar high belts subtropical high belts subpolar low belts Aleutian low Pacific high doldrums trade winds horse latitudes westerlies polar easterlies intertropical convergence zone (ITC) polar front geostrophic wind jet streams polar jet subtropical jet tropical jet Rossby waves monsoon land-sea breeze mountain-valley breeze foehn winds katabatic winds