EESB03H3 Midterm: EESB03 Midterm Key Words and Review
15 Feb 2017
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Cold dry stable: dew point temperature: the temperature at which air must be cool down in order to reach saturation, hedley cell: air rises at the equator, moves poleward and sinks at 30on and. Cold air funnels i to valleys producing cold strong wind: lake breeze: thermally induced circulation due to differential heating. Causes pressure differences which leads to air flow. Week 1: principle of climatology: composition of the atmosphere: A greenhouse gas is an atmospheric constituent that traps outgoing terrestrial radiation: there are three mechanisms for energy transfer in the atmosphere: Week 2: radiation ii and iii: incoming solar radiation graph, earth-atmosphere energy balance graph, vertical structure of atmosphere, four distinct layers in the atmosphere: Cloud level, genera and their approximate cloud base altitude. Strato: tatus ni(cid:373)(cid:271)ostratus altostratus cirrostratus trato(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulus. Cumulo: cu(cid:373)ulus trato(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulus cu(cid:373)ulo(cid:374)i(cid:373)(cid:271)us alto(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulus cirro(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulus. Cirro: cirrus (cid:272)irrostratus cirro(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulus. Chemistry occurs in polar stratospheric clouds, also called nacreous clouds.
