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| Variations in sea level due to glaciers |
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| What are the 6 unique properties of water? |
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| Exists in 3 states, powerful solvent, ice is less dense than liquid water, high specific heat, good conductor, and high surface tension |
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Cold air holds more moisture than warm air |
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| How much water vapour is in the air as a percentage of how much it could hold |
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| Describe stable conditions with respect to lapse rates. |
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ELR is less than MLR and DLR.
Air parcel is cooler than surrounding air and sinks, cannot rise |
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| Describe conditionally stable conditions with respect to lapse rates. |
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ELR is between MLR and DLR.
If air parcel is moist (MLR), will continue to rise b/c air parcel is warmer.
If air parcel is not saturated (DLR), it will sink |
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| Describe unstable conditions with respect to lapse rates. |
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ELR is greater than MLR and DLR.
Air parcels will rise. |
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| An aggregation of moisture droplets and ice crystals held together by the polarity of water. |
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| What are two processes under which clouds form? |
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| Collision-Coalescence & Bergeron Ice Crystal |
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| How are clouds classified? |
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| A cloud in contact with the ground |
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| What are 3 types of fog and how do they form? |
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Advection - Air moves from warm area to cold and condensation occurs within the air parcel
Evaporation - water evaporates from warm water body, hits cold air and condenses
Upslope & Valley |
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| Air masses are classified based on...? |
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| What are lake effect snowbelts a result of? |
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| Cold, dry air moving over a water body, picking up moisture and slightly warming. Once it is back over land again, it cools and is no longer able to hold moisture. |
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| What are 4 atmospheric lifting mechanisms? |
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| Convergent, Convectional, Orographic, and Frontal |
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| Describe what happens at a cold front. |
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| Cold air forces warm air aloft rapidly. Formation of cumulonimbus clouds. |
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| Describe what happens at a warm front. |
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| Warm air rises over cold air and clouds form. |
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| What are the 4 stages of the life cycle of a Midlatitude cyclone? |
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| Cyclogenesis, Open Stage, Occluded Stage, and Dissolving Stage |
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