Quiz3 study guide 10/6/09

Air flow over a mountain

Dry Adiabatic temperature lapse Rate (DAR)

Moist Adiabatic temperature lapse Rate (MAR)

Dew point lapse rate for dry adiabatic conditions

Dew point lapse rate for moist adiabatic conditions

Relative humidity knowing temperature and dew point temperature

Freezing rain, sleet, rain, hail, snow

What affects the height of the 500 mb surface

How to convert from surface pressure to sea level pressure

Pressure gradient force,

coriolis force, what it depends on

Geostrophic balance, geostrophic wind

Know how to determine the wind direction given contours of constant pressure height

Winds are fastest where the pressure height contours are closest

Friction

Why does friction cause surface winds to turn toward the low

Conditions of divergence and convergence aloft and their relation to troughs and ridges and why we care about them

Conditions of divergence and convergence at the surface and their relation to high and low pressure locations and why we care about them

How the alignment of divergence and convergence aloft with surface divergence and convergence lead to increase or decrease in the severity of the weather

Know your states