Study Guide for CAT 4 Atmosphere
What is ozone and what does it do?
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Why do stable air masses have few storms?
Define convergence, divergence, frontal wedging and orographic lifting
How do clouds affect air temperature?
What are the 2 most important greenhouse gases?
How do oceans affect air temperature?
How does elevation affect climate?
Where does weather happen?
Define relative humidity
What percentage of the atmospheric gases in water vapor?
Why can global warming cause more hurricanes?
What is thought to be the main cause of Global Warming?
Where do greenhouse gases come from?
What do greenhouse gases do?
What Koppen Climate is most of North Carolina in?
Koppen Climate classification is based on _________________ and ____________________
Which way do Global Winds move heat?
What happens to solar intensity as you move toward the poles?
How do thunderstorms form?
How do occluded fronts form?
What is the map symbol for a Cold front? Warm front? Stationary front?
Where are the strongest winds in a hurricane?
At frontal boundaries, which air mass is forced upward?
What causes a hurricane to lose energy as it travels over land?
Where do hurricanes form? Be specific
What is the name of the scale used to classify hurricanes?
What conditions can you expect if isobars are closely spaced on a weather map?
What does a steep air pressure gradient result in?
In the Northern Hemisphere, which way do winds blow around a high pressure center? Low pressure
center?
What conditions are associated with El Nino and La Nina?
What happens at cold fronts? Warm Fronts? Stationary Fronts?
Know the characteristics of the types of air masses that affect the US.
Where does air subside (descend) high pressure or low pressure? Where does it ascend?
What is the weather like under an area of high pressure?
Which way do storms move across the US?
How is wind direction identified?
How do the temperatures of inland cities compare with West Coast cities?
Which direction does air pressure push?
What is the ultimate energy source of winds?
On weather maps what are isobars? Isotherms?