Meteorology Basics Lecture “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
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Transcript of Meteorology Basics Lecture “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.”
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Meteorology Basics Lecture
“Climate is what you expect,
weather is what you get.”
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Distinguish between…
• Weather
• Seasons
• Climate
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Chemical Composition of the Atmosphere
• Nitrogen 78%• Oxygen 21%• Argon 0.9%• Carbon Dioxide 0.03%• Trace substances• Water Vapor
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Vertical Structure of Atmosphere
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5 variables influence the atmosphere:
• Temperature
• Pressure
• Humidity
• Cloudiness
• Winds
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Variables influencing the atmosphere…temperature:
• Measure of heat• Average kinetic
energy of molecules• Weather reports give
air temperature at ground level
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Variables influencing the atmosphere…pressure:
• High Pressure • Region where air has
piled up• Warmer and dryer
than surrounding air
• Low Pressure• Region where air has
stretched out• Tends to rise and cool,
vapor condenses into clouds
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Variables influencing the atmosphere…humidity:
• “relative humidity” –
the ratio of
amount of water vapor in air at current temp
to
max amount vapor air can hold at that temp
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Variables influencing the atmosphere…cloudiness:
• Water droplets
• Ice crystals
• Warm air rises, cools and condenses
(phase change)
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Variables influencing the atmosphere…winds:
• Due to differential heating of the earth’s surface
• Warm air rises
• Cooler air flows in
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Why is it warmer near the Earth’s equator and colder near the poles?What patterns of global air flow occur?
Check your neighbor. Make a sketch to explain your answer.
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Global Air Circulation Patterns
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Where does your weather forecast come from?
• National Weather Service
• World Weather Building in Camp Springs, Maryland
• Media weather specialists
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Weather Forecasting
• Wrong half the time?• Many features, all are
changeable• Nowcast Forecast• CNN Weather link
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The Instruments
• Thermometer
• Hygrometer
• Barometer
• Weathervane
• Anemometer
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The Instrument Carriers
• 10,000 land-based & 7,000 ocean-based
• Weather Balloons (1,000 released 2X/day)
• Buoys (300 drift or are moored at sea)
• Automated Weather Stations (about 1,000)
• Doppler Radar
• Satellites
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Reading a Weather Map
• Pressure Centers
• Fronts
• Precipitation
• Temp. Readings
• Surface Winds
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Winter Air Masses
• Continental Polar
• Maritime Polar
• Maritime Tropical
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Summer Air Masses
• Continental Polar
• Maritime Tropical
• Continental Tropical
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“Fronts” = a clash of air masses
• Cold Front• digs in underneath
a warm air mass
• Warm air rises, mixes with colder air, & condenses into clouds
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“Fronts” = a clash of air masses
• Warm Front• rides up above the
cold air
• In the rising warm air, clouds form far ahead of advancing warm front
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Air Masses Doing Battle link Cloud Classification link