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| Forecasters Rely On Data From What Sources? |
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Land And Sea Based Stations
Radiosondes
Satellites |
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| What do Forecasters run their data through to produce output? |
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| What Do Forecasters Use To Analyze The Output Of Numerical Models? |
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| What factors make modeling efforts and model analysis even more difficult? |
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Absorption and Emission of Shortwave & Longwave Energy
Phase Changes Of Water
Effects of Friction Near The Surface
Large Amounts Of Data That Can Be Imperfect On The Outset |
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Climatological Forecasts Rely On Which Of The Following:
Past Experience
Notion That What Is Happening Now Will Continue To Happen In The Shortterm
Interprets Current Conditions In Terms Of What Has Happened Previously Under Similar Conditions |
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Persistence Forecasts Rely On Which Of The Following:
Past Experience
Notion That What Is Happening Now Will Continue To Happen In The Shortterm
Interprets Current Conditions In Terms Of What Has Happened Previously Under Similar Conditions |
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| Notion That What Is Happening Now Will Continue To Happen In The Shortterm |
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Analogue Approach Forecasts Rely On Which Of The Following:
Past Experience
Notion That What Is Happening Now Will Continue To Happen In The Shortterm
Interprets Current Conditions In Terms Of What Has Happened Previously Under Similar Conditions |
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| Interprets Current Conditions In Terms Of What Has Happened Previously Under Similar Conditions |
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| What are the type of forecasts that try to predict the future value of a weather variable? |
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| What are weather values that Quantitative forecasts try to predict? |
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Temperature
Accumulated Precipitation |
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| Height of your water above normal tide |
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| You subtract the speed the hurricane is going moving forward from the windspeed of the right or left side of the hurricane? |
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| You add the speed the hurricane is going moving forward to the windspeed of the right or left side of the hurricane? |
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| What is Forecast Quality? |
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| The usefulness of a forecast. |
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| How close the forecast resembles reality. |
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| What makes up Forecast Quality? |
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| How Do Agencies Around The World Gain Weather Data? |
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Ground Based Platforms
Radiosondes
Commercial Aircrafts
Satellites
Radar |
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| What Are The Phases Of Forecasting? |
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| What Happens During The Analysis Phase? |
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| Assembling and Correction of Data |
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| What Happens During The Prediction Phase? |
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| Major Computation Work To Produce Data |
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| Different Models Give Better Predictions Depending On What? |
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| The Length of time predictions are being made for. |
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The amount of heat needed to increase it by one degree.
The higher it is, the longer it takes for the substance to cool down. |
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| Does Water have a high or low specific heat? |
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| What are weather maps for? |
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| Showing conditions at the surface at particular pressures. |
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| Each level weather map has its own set of what? |
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| What supplements weather maps? |
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| Displays based on satellite and radar observations. |
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| What is Madden Julian Oscillation? |
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Definition
| Alternating phases of moving rising air that produces thunderstorms to moving falling air leading to sunny and dry weather. |
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| What are Thermodynamic Diagrams Used For? |
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Plot temperature and dewpoint data from the surface to beyond the tropopause.
Yield Numerical indicies to predict weather events. |
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| How Do Numerical Models Differ? |
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| Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation |
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| Year oscillation in water temperatures and is a major factor in the increase in Atlantic hurricane activity. |
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| What are the components of a hurricane? |
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Definition
Eye
Eyewall
Inner Rainband
Outer Rainband |
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| Is air cooler inside or outside of the eyewall? |
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| Where is storm surge higher? |
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| Left Of the Hurricane Relative To Movement |
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| What is improving more Track Forecasts Or Intensity Forecasts? |
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| How Does The Eyewall Replacement Cycle Work? |
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| Outer Eyewall steals the instability from the inner eyewall, weakens the storm and then replaces the inner wall and a rapid increase in intensity occurs. |
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