Quiz #4 Study
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Chapter 10 ***
Thunderstorms.
Ordinary single cell (air mass) and severe
thunderstorms (what would make a thunderstorm severe).
Thunderstorm occurrence (see Fig. 10.18). 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?
Sample Questions (from
the Fall 2000 Quiz Packet)
Quiz
#6: 1-5, 7-11, 13-16 Final Exam:
4,
28, 33a, 39, 51
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Chapter 11 ***
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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Sample
Questions Final
Exam: 3, 26, 33b, 35, 45,
Forces and horizontal
winds. Pressure gradient force
(PGF), Coriolis force (CF), and frictional force (F) (surface winds
only).
Rules that determine the direction and strength of these forces.
Which force can start stationary air moving? Which of these forces
will only change the direction of the wind and not the wind speed?
Which one of these forces can only slow down the wind?
You should be able to show the direction upper level winds (PGF and CF
only) would blow around circular high and low pressure centers in the
northern and southern hemisphere. Here's an example.
You should be able to say whether surface winds will spin clockwise or
counterclockwise and spiral inward (convergence) or outward
(divergence) with surface centers of high and low pressure in the
northern and southern hemisphere. Here's an example.
Do you find rising air motions associated with surface high or low
pressure in the northern and southern hemispheres?
Sample Questions
Quiz #5: 4, 12, 13,
EC2 Final Exam: 10, 13, 18
Three-cell model.
You
should know the locations of the following
features (the features in parentheses won't be on the quiz): ITCZ,
equatorial low, horse latitudes, NE and SE trade
winds, (subpolar low), (polar front), doldrums, prevailing
westerlies, subtropical highs, (polar highs), (polar easterlies).
You should find each of these features in this figure.
With which 3-cell model features might you expect to find
abundant or infrequent rainfall?
Sample Questions
Quiz #5: 3 Final Exam: 24
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