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WEATHER: HAPPENS WHETHER
YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. Part 1 Parts of the atmosphere, what makes weather, and weather symbols
Part 2 Severe weather types and how humans should react.
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PARTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
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Identify two spheres and what features helped identify each sphere
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Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
• Five layers
– Exosphere
– Thermosphere
– Mesosphere
– Stratosphere
– Troposphere
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Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
• 1) Troposphere -contains half of the Earth's atmosphere. Weather occurs in this layer.
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Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
• 2) Stratosphere - many jet aircrafts fly here because it is very stable. The ozone layer absorbs harmful rays from the Sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I
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Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
• 3) Meteors or rock fragments burn up in the mesosphere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI
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Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
• 4) The thermosphere is a layer with auroras. Where the space shuttle orbits.
– An aurora is a natural light display caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the thermosphere.
red and green
auroras in Alaska
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• Aurora from the International Space Station
Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
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Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
• 5) The atmosphere merges into space in the extremely thin exosphere. This is the upper limit of our atmosphere.
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Why does the temperature change?
Oxygen and other elements in the upper atmosphere absorb energy and do not have many particles to run into to loose kinetic energy. Ozone layer in the stratosphere heats up the atmosphere as the ozone absorbs UV radiation. The stratopause is the upper limit of the ozone layer. Warm air rises in the troposphere until it cools off when it reaches the tropopause then sinks back toward the ground.
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Why is the sky blue?
From NASA: • Like energy passing through the ocean, light energy
travels in waves, too. Some light travels in short, "choppy" waves. Other light travels in long, lazy waves. Bluelight waves are shorter than red light waves.
• All light travels in a straight line unless something gets in the way to—
• reflect it (like a mirror) • bend it (like a prism) • or scatter it (like molecules of the gases in the
atmosphere)
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Why is the sky blue?
From NASA: Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions
by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.
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Why is the sky blue?
From NASA:
As the Sun gets lower in the sky, its light is passing through more of the atmosphere to reach you. Even more of the blue light is scattered, allowing the reds and yellows to pass straight through to your eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-yrZpTHBEss#t=165s
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What is a cloud?
• What are clouds? A cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air. How are clouds formed? All air contains water, but near the ground it is usually in the form of an invisible gas called water vapor. When warm air rises, it expands and cools. Cool air can't hold as much water vapor as warm air, so some of the vapor condenses onto tiny pieces of dust that are floating in the air and forms a tiny droplet around each dust particle. When billions of these droplets come together they become a visible cloud.
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Types of Clouds
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• High clouds
– Cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus
– Often made up of ice crystals
– Not precipitation makers
• Middle clouds
– Prefix alto-
– Light snow or drizzle
Types of Clouds
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• Low clouds – Stratus – light precipitation
– Nimbostratus – stable air, precipitation maker
– Stratocumulus – scalloped bottom
• Clouds of vertical development – Some clouds extend upward from mid to high
altitude
– Assoc w/unstable air
– Cumulonimbus – T storms
Types of Clouds
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What is it?
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What is it?
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What is it?
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Types of Clouds
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=375S1hIDAvs
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6ODJA1tIWOA#t=45s
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FOUR INGREDIENTS OF WEATHER
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Def: Parcel = A blob of air we can identify as it moves through the atmos Def: Environment = the air outside of the parcel Def: Adiabatic Process = no mixing of the air in the environment with the air in the parcel KEY IDEA:
1st Ingredient: An Unstable Atmosphere
Def. Stability: Resistance to change
Compare the temp of the parcel to the temp of the environment
parcel
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Rising Air and Stability.
LCL
LFC
EL
For an air parcel… Rising air _________ by __________. Sinking air _________ by __________
cools expansion
warms compression
= 10°C/km
Temperature of a parcel with RH<100% cools at this rate when it ascends and warms at this rate when it descends
Temperature of a parcel with RH=100% cools at this rate when it ascends (only applies to ascending parcels of air)
= 6°C/km
How much does its temperature change?
Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate Moist Adiabatic Lapse Rate
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3PNSp7E4Rw
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2nd Ingredient – Lifting mechanism
Trigger Mechanism:
- - - - -
Anything that can cause the air to rise
Surface convergence = when air flows into the same area from different directions. Some air is forced upward.
Fronts = collisions between air masses
Orographic lift (air forced to rise by a mountain)
Sea Breeze
Rising Thermals of warm air
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Trigger Mechanism – Orographic lift
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COOL
COOL
COOL
COOL
HOT
High Pressure
High Pressure
Low Pressure
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Trigger Mechanism – Rising Thermals of Air
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3rd Ingredient –Surface Moisture
*** Fuel for the storm is warm moist air Td at least 60°F energy source = the production of cloud (condensation) releases latent heat
Moisture Supply Primary: Gulf of Mexico Secondary: Evapotranspiration from the soil and vegetation
Dry
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
Updraft: warm moist air that rises cools condensation = clouds
D O W N D R A F T
Downdraft: mixing in of dry air causes evaporation = cooling precipitation falls and drags the air downward The result: cold dense pocket of rapidly descending air loaded with precip
Anvil
Tropopause
Updraft is not separated from the downdraft Kills the storm!
Rarely severe. It lasts less than 1 hour
U P D R A F T
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updraft downdraft
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Severe vs. Non-severe: The 4th ingredient
Role of wind shear: Where to find wind shear:
No wind shear Great Wind Shear
Surface
Tropopause
Surface
Tropopause
To separate the updraft from the downdraft
On a sounding – the winds are on the right hand side
Winds do not increase with height
(no shear) Winds do increase with height (lots of shear)
Wind shear – change in wind speed and direction with height
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National Weather Service Criteria for SEVERE STORMS: Just need one of the three conditions below…
Wind - 50 kts (58 mph) Hail - 1” or greater Tornado
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Weather Watch (tornado)
Conditions favorable for tornado production (severe weather)
1. Adequate Surface moisture
– Dew point more than 60 F
2. Lifting mechanism
3. Unstable Atmosphere
4. Wind Shear
– Change speed and direction
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Tornado Watch Box -four ingredients needed to produce severe weather all occur
inside
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How big was the largest hail stone ever found?
A. 10 inches in circumference (soft ball size)
B. 18 inches in circumference (cantaloupe size)
C. 28 inches in circumference (basketball size)
D. 38 inches in circumference (small beach ball size)
How wide was the widest tornado ever observed? A.½ a mile wide B.1 mile wide C.1 ½ miles wide D.2 miles wide E.2 ½ miles wide
Take a guess:
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FRONTS
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AIR MASS
Defined : A large body of air (hundreds of miles in
extent) in which temperature and moisture are
relatively uniform
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ELEMENTS OF AN AIR MASS
Temperature - determined by the latitude of the
source region
Moisture content - determined by the type of
surface over which the air mass developed. When air stagnates over the snow-covered polar latitude continents in winter, the
near surface air rapidly loses heat through radiation during the long winter nights.
Although the entire air column can cool, the greatest cooling occurs near the
surface.
In the tropics and subtropics, the intense sunlight heats the surface during the day.
The air immediately above the surface is heated upon contact.
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AIR MASS CLASSIFICATION
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AIR MASSES THAT AFFECT US
Continental Polar
Cold temp, little moisture
Originate over Canadian plains
Maritime Tropical
Warm temp, lots of moisture
Originate over tropical waters
and Gulf of Mexico
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FRONTS
The boundaries between air masses of different densities.
Fronts are classified as to which type of air mass (cold or warm) is replacing the other.
Fronts extend not only in the horizontal direction, but in the vertical as well. Therefore, when referring to the frontal surface (or frontal zone), we referring to both the horizontal and vertical components of the front
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MOVEMENT OF AIR
When two air masses collide, less dense air rises
over more dense air.
As air rises, it cools. The cooling process can create
clouds, and eventually precipitation.
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PRECIPITATION – COLD FRONTS
Cold air pushes warm air up
A more abrupt change in cloud cover
Forms narrow bands of taller clouds AT the cold front
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PRECIPITATION – WARM FRONTS
Warm air goes
over the top of
cold air
A gradual change
in cloud cover
Forms wider
bands of shorter
clouds BEFORE
the warm front
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QQ-AOCYnJrY#t=95s http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ak9CBB1bTcc#t=42s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msSVQ903T8k
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WEATHER SYMBOLS
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Weather Symbols
Wind
Pressure trend
Sky Cover
Dew Point
Weather
Temperature
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The Station Model
The weather of an individual weather station is plotted on a station model.
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Temperature: is defined as a measure of the average of the speed of the molecules in motion in the air. - fast the molecules = high temperatures - slow molecules = low temperatues
The value highlighted in yellow located in the upper left corner is the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
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Weather Symbol
The weather symbol indicates the type of weather occurring at the time the observation is taken.
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The higher the dew points, the higher the moisture content in the air.
Dew point = the temperature to which the air would have to cool in order to reach saturation.
Saturation = When the dew point temperature and air temperature are equal. You can tell if air is saturated by the formation of water droplets (drops on a glass).
Dew point temperature is NEVER GREATER than the air temperature.
What do you think happens when the temperature equals the dew point?
Dew Point Temperature
Indicates the amount of moisture in the air
Formation of droplets of water, fog, or precipitation.
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Cloud Cover
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Air Pressure The value highlighted in yellow represents the last three digits of the observed pressure reading in millibars (mb).
Wind barbs point in the direction "from" which the wind is blowing. In the case of the diagram to the right, the orientation of the wind barb indicates winds from the Northeast.
Wind speed is given here in the units of "knots". A "Knot" is a nautical mile per hour.
Each short barb represents 5 knots, each long barb 10 knots. A long barb and a short barb is 15 knots, simply by adding the value of each barb together (10 knots + 5 knots = 15 knots).
If only a station circle is plotted, the winds are calm.
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