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Chapter 11 (skim) ***
Thunderstorms.
Ordinary single cell (air mass) and severe
thunderstorms (what would make a thunderstorm severe).
Thunderstorm occurrence (see Fig. 11-22, which state in the US has the
most thunderstorms?). Life cycle of an air
mass thunderstorm. How can the dissipation of one storm lead to
the formation of another? Thunderstorm features and, in some
cases, processes that produce them: gust front, anvil cloud,
shelf cloud, mammatus clouds, microburst. Wind shear. Why can a
storm with a tilted updraft become stronger and last longer than
a storm with a vertical updraft? Supercell thunderstorms.
Tornadoes. General
characteristics: low pressure core, duration,
length of path on the ground, diameter, speed of rotating winds,
speed and usual direction of the movement on the ground. Life
cycle. What causes the tornado cloud? Tornado season (when do
the most tornadoes occur, when do the strongest tornadoes occur).
Fujita scale. Tornado winds and damage. Multiple vortices,
suction vortices. Mesocyclone and wall clouds. Tornado watches
and warnings. Hook echo on radar.
Lightning. What
creates the
electricity in thunderstorms?
Normal distribution of electrical charge in a thunderstorm.
Intracloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. Sequence of events in
a multi-stroke cloud-to-ground lightning flash: stepped leader,
upward connecting discharge, first return stroke, one or more
dart leaders and subsequent return strokes. Unusual types of
lightning and rocket-triggered lightning. Lightning hazards and
safety. What produces thunder? Determining the distance to a
lightning strike. How/why do lightning rods and cars offer
protection from
lightning?
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Quiz
#6: 1-5, 7-11, 13-16 Final Exam:
4,
28, 33a, 39, 51
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Chapter 12 (skim) ***
Hurricanes:
Formation (where and when). Eye, eye wall, spiral rain bands,
low
pressure & converging winds at surface, high pressure &
diverging winds aloft. Stages of storm development. Storm surge and
hurricane damage,
Saffir-Simpson scale. Naming hurricanes.
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