GEOG 2505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dew Point, Wind Shear, Middle Latitudes

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 2505
• Professor: D Carrol

Document Summary

Lecture 12 skew t log p thermodynamic diagram. Midterm will likely be next week (or so). Quiz i is due monday, october 22 at 11:59 p. m. Problem set i is due monday, october 22 at 11:59 p. m. Goal post sounding / y-shaped = severe weather (dew point and thermal profile close together at the bottom and not at the top) fan outward a lot going up. Tropical systems and middle latitude systems are different to read (hurricanes do well in calm areas, thunderstorms need wind shear to sustain themselves).