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Weather and Climate
Exam 3 Review Sheet
Air Pressure and Wind
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Air Pressure Defined
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How does air pressure change with height
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Measurement
o Barometer - Types
o Inches of Mercury and Millibars
o Isobars
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Altitudinal Correction of Pressure
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Pressure related to density and temperature
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Forces that act upon wind
o Pressure Gradient Force
o Coriolis Force
o Friction
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Curved flow around a High and Low
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Wind Measurement
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Global Winds
o Single Cell (Hadley) Model
o Three Cell Model
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Hadley, Ferrell, Polar Cells
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Wind Directions
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High and Low Pressure Belts
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Real World Semi Permanent High and Low
Pressure
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Jet Stream
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Major Ocean Currents covered in class
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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
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What is an Air Mass
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Source Regions
o Where and what is Ideal?
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Types of Air Masses
o cP, cA, cT, mP, MT
o Characteristics
o Impacts
o Source Regions
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Define a Front
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Types Fronts
o Cold, Warm, Stationary, Occluded
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How to find the location of a cold front
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Impacts of Different types of fronts
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Mid Latitude Cyclone
o Characteristics and Weather Patterns
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Alberta Clipper and Nor’easter
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Dry Line
Thunderstorms
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Defined
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Types of Thunderstorms
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Favorable Conditions
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Three Stages of Thunderstorm Development and
Characteristics
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Severe Thunderstorm Characteristics
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Gust Front and Microburst
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Roll Clouds, Wall Clouds, Squall Lines, and
Super Cells
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Types of Flooding
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Distribution of Thunderstorms
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Lightning Defined
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Types of Lightning
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Formation of Lightning
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Lightning Detection
Tornados
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Defined
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Tornado v. Funnel Cloud
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Conditions needed to form
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Characteristics of an Average Tornado
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Movement of Tornados
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Types of Destruction
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Fujita Scale
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Distribution of Tornados
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Observing a Tornado
Lab
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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