Quiz 2 study guide

Hot objects radiate more energy per unit surface area than cold objects

Seasons and their causes

Diurnal temperature variations and their causes

Be familiar with global energy balance figure 2.16 in Ahrens

Horizontal heat transfer Figure 2.17 of Ahrens

Why peak daily temperature is after noon (Figure 3.2) and peak seasonal temperature is after the summer solstice (June 21)

Be able to use wind chill and heat index charts to be able to determine how cold or warm the air feels

Be able to use the saturation vapor pressure curve (Fig. 4.5) to determine SVP from temperature and Dew point temperature fromt eh vapor pressure

Know what the various ways of describing water vapor are: relative humidity, specific humidity, vapor pressure, saturation vapor pressure, dew point temperature, wet bulb temperature

What a CCN is and why it is important

The types of Fog

Be able to recognize types of clouds from a picture