Friday, March 18, 2016
Focus on Severe Weather: A Cold Front Chills Louisiana
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on the Environment and Societal Impacts: The Pineapple Express
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on the Environment and Societal Impacts: Air Mass Weather: Oppressive Heat and Humidity
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: What Causes El Ninos and La Ninas?
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on the Environment and Societal Impacts: Wildfires
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Dishpan Experiment
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Movement of Rossby Waves
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: Maintaining General Circulation
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on the Environment and Societal Impacts: Floods in the Midwestern United States
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on Aviation: Fog Seeding at Airports
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Effect of Hail Size on Damage
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) 7th Edition by Edward Aguado (Author), James E. Burt (Author)
Physical Principles: Why Cloud Droplets Don't Fall
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Surprising Composition of Clouds
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Forecasting: Why Clouds Have Clearly Defined Boundaries
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on the Environment and Social Impacts: Radiation Inversions and Human Activities
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Forecasting: Potential Instability
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Forecasting: Determining Stability from Thermodynamic Diagrams
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on the Environment and Social Impacts: High Temperatures and Human Health
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Varying Value of the Saturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: Adiabatic Lapse Rates and the First Law of Thermodynamics
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on Aviation: Icing
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Forecasting: Vertical Profiles of Moisture
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Forecasting: Water Vapor Satellite Imagery
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Forecasting: Dew Point and Nighttime Minimum Temperatures
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on Aviation: Using Altimeters to Monitor Altitude
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Coriolis Force
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) 7th Edition by Edward Aguado (Author), James E. Burt (Author)
Physical Principles: The Hydrostatic Equation
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt.
► Hydrostatic Balance = if the net upwards force is equal to the downward force
─ For an atmosphere in hydrostatic balance, the balance of forces
in the vertical requires that…
► Or, the Hydrostatic
Equation:
─ The negative sign ensures that the pressure decreases with
increasing height
─ Because
we can rearrange the hydrostatic equation to
give…
► Above a fixed point on Earth…
─ That is, the pressure at height z is equal to the weight of
the air in the vertical column of unit cross-sectional are lying about that
level.
Hydrostatic
Equilibrium
► Pressure gradient force causes wind to flow from high to
low pressure
► Air pressure rapidly decreases with altitude
► Gravity pulls all mass, including the atmosphere, downward.
► Hydrostatic Equilibrium = vertical pressure gradient force and the force of
gravity are normally of nearly equal value and operate in opposite directions
─ When, gravitational force = vertical pressure gradient
force in magnitude à no vertical
acceleration occurs
─ When, gravitational force > vertical pressure gradient
force à downward motion
When, gravitational force < vertical pressure gradient force Ã
updrafts can develop that are associated with powerful thunderstormsFocus on the Environment and Social Impacts: Owens Lake Dust Storms
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: Variations in Density
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: Velocity, Acceleration, Force, and Pressure
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on the Environment & Societal Impacts: Recent Severe Heat Waves
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: Earth's Equilibrium Temperature
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Sun
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: The Nature of Radiation, Absorption, and Emission
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) 7th Edition by Edward Aguado (Author), James E. Burt (Author)
Focus on the Environment and Social Impacts: Depletion of the Ozone Layer
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) 7th Edition by Edward Aguado (Author), James E. Burt (Author)
Physical Principles: The Three Temperature Scales
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Physical Principles: Photosynthesis, Respiration, and the Global Carbon Cycle
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Focus on Aviation: Winter Storms and Air Travel
Understanding Weather and Climate (7th Edition) (MasteringMeteorology Series) by Edward Aguado, James E. Burt
Thursday, March 17, 2016
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