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Weather Vocab
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Thermal Energy | The sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of the particles that make up the object |
| Energy | the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity. |
| Convection | the transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas. |
| Jet stream | the transfer of heat by the circulation or movement of the heated parts of a liquid or gas. |
| Coriolis effect | The apparent deflection, of a body in motion with respect to the earth as seen by an observer on the earth attributed to the fictitious force but actually caused to the right in the northern hemisphere and a deflection to the left in the southern hemis |
| Global winds | Global winds are winds that occur in belts that go all around the planet. Like local winds, global winds are caused by unequal heating of the atmosphere. |
| Trade winds | Wind that blow stady from est - wst and to the equator over most of the Torid Zon. The tre winds cuz bu hot air rie at the eqtor, with col air mov in to tke it plce frm the north and south. The winds are defetd west cuz of the Earth's west east rotation. |
| Westerlies | the prevailing winds blowing from the west on the poleward sides of the horse latitudes, often bringing depressions and anticyclones |
| Polar Easterlies | they are dry and cold prevailing winds that blow from the east |
| Doldrums | a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. |
| Horse latitdes | the latitudes, approximately 30° N and S, forming the edges of the trade-wind belt, characterized by high atmospheric pressure with calms and light variable winds. |
| Local wind | one of a number of winds that are influenced predominantly by the topographic features of a relatively small region. |
| Land breeze | a coastal breeze blowing at night from land to sea, caused by the difference in the rate of cooling of their respective surfaces. |
| Sea Breeze | a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land. |
| Atmosphere | the gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air: |
| Troposphere | the lowest layer of the atmosphere, 6 miles high in some areas and as much as 12 mile high in others, within there is a steady drop in temperature with increasing height and within which nearly all cloud formations occur and weather conditions manifest. |
| Stratosphere | the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the troposphere to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature. |
| Mesosphere | (in the classification of the earth's atmosphere by chemical properties) the region between the ionosphere and the exosphere, extending from about 250–650 miles (400–1050 km) above the surface of the earth. |
| Thermosphere | the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere. |
| Exosphere | the highest region of the atmosphere, where the air density is so low that a fast-moving air molecule is more than 50 percent likely to escape from the atmosphere instead of hitting other molecules. |
| Oxygen | a colorless, odorless, gaseous element constituting about one-fifth of the volume of the atmosphere and present in a combined state in nature. |
| Nitrogen | a colorless, odorless, gaseous element that constitutes about four-fifths of the volume of the atmosphere |
| Argon | a colorless, odorless, chemically inactive, monatomic, gaseous element that, because of its inertness, is used for filling fluorescent and incandescent lamps and vacuum tubes. Symbol: Ar; atomic number: 18; atomic weight: 39.948. |
| Trace Gasses | Trace gases are gases that are present in small amounts within an environment such as a planet's atmosphere |
| Water Vapor | a dispersion, in air, of molecules of water, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. |
| Air pressure | the force exerted by air, whether compressed or unconfined, on any surface in contact with it. |
| Mercury Barometer | a barometer in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column, |
| Aneroid barometer | a device for measuring atmospheric pressure, often specially calibrated for use as an altimeter, consisting of a box or chamber partially exhausted of air, |
| Low pressure | having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water. |
| High Pressure | having or involving a pressure above the normal: |
| Water Cycle | the circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration |
| Evaporate | to change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor. |
| Condensation | the act of condensing; the state of being condensed. |
| Runoff | something that drains or flows off, as rain that flows off from the land in streams. |
| Meteorologist | a scientist who studies the atmosphere and its phenomena, including weather and climate: |
| Cirrus | a cloud of a class characterized by thin white filaments or narrow bands and a composition of ice crystals: of high altitude, about 20,000–40,000 feet (6000–12,000 meters). |
| Cumulus | a cloud of a class characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds, or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower: as such clouds develop vertically, they form cumulonimbus. |
| Air Mass | a body of air covering a relatively wide area, exhibiting approximately uniform properties through any horizontal section. |
| Weather | the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc. |
| Climate | the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years. |
| Forecast | to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: |
| Temperature | a measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value. The temperature of two systems is the same when the systems are in thermal equilibrium. Abbreviation: T |
| Front | the foremost part or surface of anything. |
| Humidity | humid condition; moistness; dampness. |
| High pressure | having or involving pressure above the normal |
| Low Pressure | having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water. |
| Storm | a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust. |
| Precipitiaotion | the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated. |
| tornado | a potentially violent and destructive system of atmospheric circulation, characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris: |
| thunderstorm | a transient storm of lightning and thunder, usually with rain and gusty winds, sometimes with hail or snow, produced by cumulonimbus clouds. |
| Hurricane | a tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or eastern Pacific Ocean |
| Flood | a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged. |
| Cumulosnibus | a cloud of a class indicative of thunderstorm conditions, characterized by large, dense towers that often reach altitudes of 30,000 feet (9,000 meters) or more, cumuliform except for to |
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