GSC 304- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Atlantic ocean that influences the weather over europe and over eastern north. America: southern oscillation is the reversal of surface air pressure at opposite ends of the tropical pacific ocean that occur during major el nino events. Low temperatures and high humidity: define air mass weather. Prevailing winds move them from the u. s: which air mass causes most of the precipitation for the region east of the rocky. Sinking cold air and rising warm air: rain long foretold, long last; short notice soon past . A tropical disturbance is an organized mass of thunderstorms with a slight cyclonic wind circulation. A storm is any disturbed state of the environment. Heat is a form of energy transferred between systems by virtue of their temperature differences: define the following terms fahrenheit, kelvin, and celsius. The fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale where 32 is assigned to the temperature at which water freezes and 212 is when water boils.
