An Introduction to Weather and Climate
... Climate is the pattern of weather, usually based over 30 years. When working out the climate of a location, the average results of the changes in the atmosphere will be noted. Climate talks about general information: warm, dry summers cold, dark winters hot and dry all year round. How would you desc ...
... Climate is the pattern of weather, usually based over 30 years. When working out the climate of a location, the average results of the changes in the atmosphere will be noted. Climate talks about general information: warm, dry summers cold, dark winters hot and dry all year round. How would you desc ...
An Introduction to Weather and Climate
... Climate is the pattern of weather, usually based over 30 years. When working out the climate of a location, the average results of the changes in the atmosphere will be noted. Climate talks about general information: warm, dry summers cold, dark winters hot and dry all year round. How would you desc ...
... Climate is the pattern of weather, usually based over 30 years. When working out the climate of a location, the average results of the changes in the atmosphere will be noted. Climate talks about general information: warm, dry summers cold, dark winters hot and dry all year round. How would you desc ...
Lec 18 - Agro Meteorology - Development of e
... Indian continent receives its annual rainfall by the peculiar phenomenon known as monsoon. It consists of series of cyclones that arise in India Ocean. These travel in northeast direction and enter the Peninsular India along its west coast. The most important of these cyclones usually occur from Jun ...
... Indian continent receives its annual rainfall by the peculiar phenomenon known as monsoon. It consists of series of cyclones that arise in India Ocean. These travel in northeast direction and enter the Peninsular India along its west coast. The most important of these cyclones usually occur from Jun ...
SCIENCE PROJECT2 m and b
... This is a continental climate with long, very cold winters, and short, cool summers. This climate is found in the polar air mass region. Very cold air masses from the arctic often move in. The temperature range is larger than any other climate. Rain increases during summer months, but annual rain is ...
... This is a continental climate with long, very cold winters, and short, cool summers. This climate is found in the polar air mass region. Very cold air masses from the arctic often move in. The temperature range is larger than any other climate. Rain increases during summer months, but annual rain is ...
Air masses influencing Australian weather
... Tropical maritime Pacific This air mass is similar to the tropical maritime Tasman air mass, but it is warmer, coming from further north in the Coral Sea and tropical western Pacific Ocean. This air mass affects the Central and North Queensland coast most of the year, and can bring heavy rainfall if ...
... Tropical maritime Pacific This air mass is similar to the tropical maritime Tasman air mass, but it is warmer, coming from further north in the Coral Sea and tropical western Pacific Ocean. This air mass affects the Central and North Queensland coast most of the year, and can bring heavy rainfall if ...
Eastern United States
... • On the western side of the mountians the air rises and then descends on the eastern side. The air warms as it decreases in altitude creating warm currents and an effect called the “chinook winds.” This along with the low elevation and latitude creates higher temperatures in cities closer to the ea ...
... • On the western side of the mountians the air rises and then descends on the eastern side. The air warms as it decreases in altitude creating warm currents and an effect called the “chinook winds.” This along with the low elevation and latitude creates higher temperatures in cities closer to the ea ...
Weather
... the factors driving them, now we move to localised weather patterns where broad scale synoptic systems are influenced by local topographic features and human developments. We are also interested in day to day variation as well as longer term averages. ...
... the factors driving them, now we move to localised weather patterns where broad scale synoptic systems are influenced by local topographic features and human developments. We are also interested in day to day variation as well as longer term averages. ...
A Short Note on Pineapple Express
... mobile cyclones that track from the subtropical Pacific toward the Pacific coast of North America. There is evidence to suggesting that the tropical Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO – a cycle that enhances and suppresses rainfall in the tropics) exerts a strong impact on the Pineapple Express. It is t ...
... mobile cyclones that track from the subtropical Pacific toward the Pacific coast of North America. There is evidence to suggesting that the tropical Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO – a cycle that enhances and suppresses rainfall in the tropics) exerts a strong impact on the Pineapple Express. It is t ...
Climate: The Two Ports What is the climate of Cabo San Lucas and
... The climatic conditions of both the Latitude voyages’ ports are influenced by mountainous terrain. When wind blows air over mountains, it increases precipitation on the windward side (where the wind comes from), and precipitation decreases on the leeward side as the air descends to lower elevations, ...
... The climatic conditions of both the Latitude voyages’ ports are influenced by mountainous terrain. When wind blows air over mountains, it increases precipitation on the windward side (where the wind comes from), and precipitation decreases on the leeward side as the air descends to lower elevations, ...
Canadians prove humans are causing climate change
... “These shifts may have already had significant effects on ecosystems, agriculture and human health, especially in regions that are sensitive to changes in precipitation, such as the Sahel region in northern Africa,” the report states. In essence, human activity is creating a stronger water cycle, m ...
... “These shifts may have already had significant effects on ecosystems, agriculture and human health, especially in regions that are sensitive to changes in precipitation, such as the Sahel region in northern Africa,” the report states. In essence, human activity is creating a stronger water cycle, m ...
Heavy rainfall prediction over East Asia using the high resolution
... experiments of the rapid update cycle (RUC) and nudging techniques for radar rain water and horizontal wind assimilation, individual convective storms are well developed and the spin-up time of precipitation is much reduced in the 1 to 5 km horizontal model domain. The 2-hour assimilation window wit ...
... experiments of the rapid update cycle (RUC) and nudging techniques for radar rain water and horizontal wind assimilation, individual convective storms are well developed and the spin-up time of precipitation is much reduced in the 1 to 5 km horizontal model domain. The 2-hour assimilation window wit ...
Earth rainfall climatology
Earth rainfall climatology Is the study of rainfall, a sub-field of Meteorology. Formally, a wider study includes water falling as ice crystals, i.e. hail, sleet, snow (parts of the hydrological cycle known as precipitation). The aim of rainfall climatology is to measure, understand and predict rain distribution across different regions of planet Earth, a factor of air pressure, humidity, topography, cloud type and raindrop size, via direct measurement and remote sensing data acquisition. Current technologies accurately predict rainfall 3-4 days in advance using numerical weather prediction. Geostationary orbiting satellites gather IR and visual wavelength data to measure realtime localised rainfall by estimating cloud albedo, water content, and the corresponding probability of rain.Geographic distribution of rain is largely governed by climate type, topography and habitat humidity. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation. On the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can exist due to the dry air caused by compressional heating. The movement of the monsoon trough, or intertropical convergence zone, brings rainy seasons to savannah climes. The urban heat island effect leads to increased rainfall, both in amounts and intensity, downwind of cities. Global warming may also cause changes in the precipitation pattern globally, including wetter conditions at high latitudes and in some wet tropical areas, and drier conditions in parts of the subtropics and middle latitudes. Precipitation is a major component of the water cycle, and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the planet. Approximately 505,000 cubic kilometres (121,000 cu mi) of water falls as precipitation each year; 398,000 cubic kilometres (95,000 cu mi) of it over the oceans. Given the Earth's surface area, that means the globally averaged annual precipitation is 990 millimetres (39 in). Climate classification systems such as the Köppen climate classification system use average annual rainfall to help differentiate between differing climate regimes. Most of Australia is semi-arid or desert, making it the world's driest continent. Australia's rainfall is mainly regulated by the movement of the monsoon trough during the summer rainy season, with lesser amounts falling during the winter and spring in its southernmost sections. Almost whole North Africa is semi-arid, arid or hyper-arid, containing the Sahara Desert which is the largest hot desert in the world, while central Africa (known as Sub-Saharan Africa) sees an annual rainy season regulated by the movement of the intertropical convergence zone or monsoon trough, though the Sahel Belt located at the south of the Sahara Desert knows an extremely intense and a nearly permanent dry season and only receives minimum summer rainfall. Across Asia, a large annual rainfall minimum, composed primarily of deserts, stretches from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia west-southwest through Pakistan and Iran into the Arabian Desert in Saudi Arabia. In Asia, rainfall is favored across its southern portion from India east and northeast across the Philippines and southern China into Japan due to the monsoon advecting moisture primarily from the Indian Ocean into the region. Similar, but weaker, monsoon circulations are present over North America and Australia. In Europe, the wettest regions are in the Alps and downwind of bodies of water, particularly the Atlantic west coasts. Within North America, the drier areas of the United States are the Desert Southwest, Great Basin, valleys of northeast Arizona, eastern Utah, central Wyoming, and the Willamette Valley. Other dry regions within the continent are far northern Canada and the Sonoran Desert of northwest Mexico. The Pacific Northwest United States, the Rockies of British Columbia, and the coastal ranges of Alaska are the wettest locations in North America. The equatorial region near the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), or monsoon trough, is the wettest portion of the world's continents. Annually, the rain belt within the tropics marches northward by August, then moves back southward into the Southern Hemisphere by February and March.