GEOG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Origins Game Fair, Air Mass (Solar Energy), Ibm 7090
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Affects: 1 continental or maritime, 2 latitude. As air moves south, temperatures get warmer at the surface, because the solar radiation is more direct: classification. A (arctic/antarctic) = 70-90 degrees: air mass types. A arctic/antarctic: air mass movement and modification. Example 2 lake effect snowbelts: air mass patterns. Condensation creates more latent heat energy: atmospheric lifting mechanisms. Virga bands of rain escaping from clouds but not reaching the surface of the earth. Responsible for rain that occurs at the surface of the earth. Need the cooling for condensation to occur. Results from the convergence of the northeast trade winds and the southeast trade winds. Heated by solar radiation to where we have unstable conditions at surface. Creates thermals, thermals may result in precipitation. Where cumulous clouds are in the summer, are indicators of where thermals. Turkey vultures glide through thermals are located. Cumulus nimbus clouds occur when rain is present. All about the thermals, adiabatic lapse rates, and environmental lapse.
