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GY 101 Senkbeil Exam 4 Questions & Detailed Answers
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- GY 101
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- University Of North Carolina At Wilmington
GY 101 Senkbeil Exam 4 Questions & Detailed Answers
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GY 101 Senkbeil Exam 4 Questions & DetailedAnswers
Puffy. - ANS What shape are Cumuliform clouds?
Warm air rises and cools resulting in condensation and cloud formation. - ANS Why
do clouds form?
aggregation of moisture droplets. - ANS What do clouds contain?
It rains. - ANS What happens when enough droplets in a cloud form?
at or above the condensation level. - ANS When will clouds only form?
Wispy. - ANS What shape are Cirroform clouds?
horizontal and flat. - ANS What shape are Stratiform clouds?
Winter. - ANS What season do Cirrus clouds form?
High pressure. - ANS What pressure do Cirrus clouds form at?
,Fair weather. - ANS What kind of weather can have Cumulus clouds in it?
Greater than 6 kilometers. - ANS what height do Cirrus clouds form?
Ice and water. - ANS What do Altocumulus clouds contain?
Ice only. - ANS What do Cirrus clouds contain?
Storm clouds. - ANS Cumulonimbus clouds are classified as?
Low sheet like clouds with wavy bottoms. - ANS What does stratocumulus clouds
look like?
During unstable conditions - downdrafts/updrafts in the clouds. - ANS When do
Mammatus clouds form?
Strong vertical motion and turbulence. - ANS What do Mammatus clouds indicate?
Continental polar (cP). - ANS Cold, and dry. Only occurs in the northern
hemisphere at middle and high latitudes. More dominant in the winter. Can be
extremely cold and dry. Generally stable (cold days, bright blue skies).
Continental tropical (cT). - ANS Hot, dry.
, Maritime Tropical (mT). - ANS Warm, and moist. Originates in the tropics in the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Pacific Ocean of this type of air mass contains less
moisture than the Atlantic version of this airmass air mass.
Maritime polar (mP). - ANS Cool, and moist. Source areas are over the Pacific and
Atlantic Oceans in the mid and high latitudes. Generally, produce cool and
unstable conditions.
Air mass. - ANS Is a relatively homogenous large mass of air in terms of
temperature and moisture characteristics.
Air mass modification. - ANS Since air masses move, they can migrate over areas
and inherit characteristics from those areas.
Lake effect snow. - ANS In winter cold cP or cA air can move over the lakes and
pick up moisture. The moisture is precipitated in the lee of the lakes as snow.
Cold front. - ANS Occurs between advancing cP or mP air and warmer air masses.
Warm air is forced to rise upwards against the colder denser air, forming cumulus
and cumulonimbus clouds.
Clouds associated with cold fronts. - ANS Cirrus, Stratocumulus, Cumulonimbus,
Altocumulus
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