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| Air's susceptibility to uplift |
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| Will continue to rise if given an initial upwards push |
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| Will resist the upward push and sinks back to the original level. |
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| Will not rise or sink, it rests at the height to which it was displaced. |
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| What are the phases of Thunderstorm Development? |
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Cumulus Phase/Developing
Mature
Dissipating Phase |
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| Cumulus Developing Phase has what kind of drafts? |
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| Mature Phase has what kind of drafts? |
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| Dissipating Phase has what kind of drafts? |
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| During what phase of Thunderstorms are you to see all kinds of weather? |
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| When during a Thunderstorm do you begin to see severe weather? |
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| Near the end of the Mature Phase and the beginning of the Dissipating Phase. |
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| What is the self destruct mechanism of a single cell thunderstorm? |
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| Precipitation falls through the updraft, slowing and killing the updraft and killing the thunderstorm. |
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| Particle collisions, leading to particles of different charges, leading to particles separating, building charges and reaching out with their charges to particles of the opposite polarity. |
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| Why is lightning likely to form in the Mature Phase of a Thunderstorm? |
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| You have updrafts and downdrafts. |
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| What size particles tend to have a positive electrical charges and be located closer to the top of a storm? |
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| What size particles tend to have a negative electrical charges and be located closer to the bottom of a storm? |
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| What charge is the bottom of a storm? |
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| What charge is at the middle of the storm? |
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| What charge is at the bottom of the storm? |
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| No,there is no thunder, without lightning. |
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| What Do You Need To Make A Storm? |
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Heat
Moisture/Humidity
Lifting
Instability |
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| What are the different types of lifting? |
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Orographic Lifting
Convection Lifting
Frontal Lifting
Surface Heating |
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| Environmental Lapse Rate = |
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| Actual Temperature as measured by a radiosonde. |
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| Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate = |
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| Unsaturated Parcel of air = 10 Celsius per km |
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| Saturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate = |
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| Saturated Parcel of Air = 6 Celsius Per km |
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| Rate of cooling/warming of the atmosphere with weight. |
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| When the pressure applied on a parcel of air is reduced, the air in the parcel is allowed to expand; as the volume increases, the temperature falls as its internal energy decreases. |
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