Term | Definition |
Air Pressure | The pressure caused by the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area. |
Altitude | Elevation above sea level |
Atmosphere | The layer of gases that surrounds the Earth. |
Density | The amount of mass of a substance in a given volume. D=M/V |
Air Mass | A huge body of air that forms over a region characterizing it with similar temperature,
humidity and pressure at any given height. |
Front | The boundary separating two or more different types of air masses. |
Ozone | A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of two. |
Convection | The transfer of heat by the movement of warmed matter (air or liquid) |
Coriolis Effect | The deflection of an object moving above the earth, rightward in the northern hemisphere and leftward in the southern hemisphere. |
Wind | The movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. |
Temperature | A measure of the average amount of thermal energy in a substance. (how hot or cold an object is) |
Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place |
Dew Point | The temperature at which water vapor will start to condense out of the air as liquid water. |
Radar | Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). |
Fluid | Anything that flows and fills a container such as a liquid or a gas. |