Atmo - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

3 stages of an air mass thunderstorm - ️️ A good source region for an air mass would be: - ️️Flat areas of uniform surface dominated by high surface pressure A) Thunderstorms B) Freezing rain C) Blizzards D) Low pressure system - ️️ A) Warm Front B) Occluded front C) Stationary Front D) Cold front - ️️ After a cold front passes in Washington D.C. the weather generally becomes (think air masses) - ️️Colder and drier An air mass is characterized by similar propert...

According to the book Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, approximately how many avalanche paths threaten State Route 210 (SR-210) and other roads in Little Cottonwood Canyon? correct answers 50 Which highway has the highest avalanche hazard of any highway in North America? correct answers State Route 210 through Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT According to the book Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, what was the seasonal population in the Town of Alta in 1873? correct answers 3,000 ...

Advection Fog - ️️When there is warm air with moderate moisture that passes over a cooler surface, the cold surface (via conduction) cools the air temperature down to the dew point and then creates fog. • Requires a light breeze for this process to occur. • Advection fog is common on the west coast of the U.S Describe how a sling psychrometer works. What does it measure? Does it give you dew point and relative humidity? Explain. - ️️A sling psychrometer is two thermometers mounted s...

Absorption - ️️Substance absorbs radiation it gains energy Temperature increases Aerosols - ️️Small solid particles Combustion by-products, dust Important in cloud formation Air heated by Earth's surface - ️️conduction atmosphere - ️️Has mass therefore weight due to gravity Gravity - downward directed force Very shallow depth (relative sense) Atmospheric Gases - ️️Permanent Gases - distribution remains constant Variable Gases - distribution varies in space and ti...

.What is a Severe Weather Watch? - ️️Conditions are favorable for severe weather development but are not currently occuring Are Nor'easters hard to forecast? - ️️Yes Can an Alberta Clipper affect Texas? - ️️No Can Derecho's cover large distances over short timespans? - ️️Yes Can micro and downbursts be very strong? - ️️YES - think of Twister Can you have clouds at the eye of a storm? - ️️No, because air sinks Can you say that there is a tornado if you see dust swi...

Centrifugal force is fake but is analogous to Third Law Chinook Winds - ️️Forcing moist air up a mountain. Mountain squeezes air parcels so that moisture falls out. Then air compresses and drys. Come out much warmer than when you came in on the other side of the mountain. Cold Air Damming - ️️Up slope flow of warm air over cold surface air blocked by terrain. Cold Front - ️️Zne where cold dry (stable) are replaces/lifts warm moist (unstable) air Much more violent weather with a ...

acceleration - ️️the change in speed and/or direction experienced by an object; describes how the object is moving altitude correction - ️️something applied to altering pressure to be at sea level for regions above sea level anticyclones - ️️areas of high pressure; fair weather anticyclonic - ️️the air flow is clockwise around high pressure (northern hemisphere) clockwise - ️️a person on the South Pole would spin____ condensation - ️️returning>leaving ...

ATMOS FINAL EXAM 2024...

On average how many deaths does weather related events take annually in the U.S? - 500 lives From lives taken by weather events in the U.S. _________ are from __________ - almost half; excessive heat(43 percent)

NAB NHA Exam- Physical, Environmental, and Atmosphere Qs&As the physical plant - Correct Answer-all designed, constructed, equipped, and maintained to protect health and safety of residents, personnel, public Life Safety Code (LSC) - Correct Answer-Entire construction plan and materials meet LSC standards|||CMS requires unless have waiver or exception. CMS grants waivers on SNFs; states on NFs (NFPA) - Correct Answer-National Fire Protection Association ||established LSC Purpose of LSC -...