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Weather and Climate Exam 3 Review Sheet Air Pressure and Wind Air Pressure Defined How does air pressure change with height Measurement o Barometer - Types o Inches of Mercury and Millibars o Isobars Altitudinal Correction of Pressure Pressure related to density and temperature Forces that act upon wind o Pressure Gradient Force o Coriolis Force o Friction Curved flow around a High and Low Wind Measurement Global Winds o Single Cell (Hadley) Model o Three Cell Model Hadley, Ferrell, Polar Cells Wind Directions High and Low Pressure Belts Real World Semi Permanent High and Low Pressure Jet Stream Major Ocean Currents covered in class Local Winds o Different Scales o Sea and Land Breeze o Monsoon o Chinook and Santa Ana o Haboob and Dust Devils o Nor’easter o Country Breeze Air Masses and Fronts What is an Air Mass Source Regions o Where and what is Ideal? Types of Air Masses o cP, cA, cT, mP, MT o Characteristics o Impacts o Source Regions Define a Front Types Fronts o Cold, Warm, Stationary, Occluded How to find the location of a cold front Impacts of Different types of fronts Mid Latitude Cyclone o Characteristics and Weather Patterns Alberta Clipper and Nor’easter Dry Line Thunderstorms Defined Types of Thunderstorms Favorable Conditions Three Stages of Thunderstorm Development and Characteristics Severe Thunderstorm Characteristics Gust Front and Microburst Roll Clouds, Wall Clouds, Squall Lines, and Super Cells Types of Flooding Distribution of Thunderstorms Lightning Defined Types of Lightning Formation of Lightning Lightning Detection Tornados Defined Tornado v. Funnel Cloud Conditions needed to form Characteristics of an Average Tornado Movement of Tornados Types of Destruction Fujita Scale Distribution of Tornados Observing a Tornado Lab Labeling a diagram with fronts Reading Temperature, Dew Point, and Pressure off of a weather station Coding pressure readings Labeling global winds and pressure belts on a diagram Converting pressure from inches of mercury to millibars Identifying the hemisphere and low/high pressure on a diagram Understanding the impact pressure gradient and coriolis has on the direction of winds Reading a wind rose