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What are the sun's three interior layers?

Virga is precipitation that does not touch the ground

What are the three types of the five global climate zones?

The molecular boundary layer is a transition layer ranging from Earth's surface to 1 cm above the Earth's surface

Windward side of a mountain has increased clouds and precipitation

_____ circulation is associated with high pressure and heights.

What is the composition of the Earth's atmosphere?

Mixed tides have 2 high tides and 2 low tides but have different tide heights

Runway Visual Range (RVR) is reported in what unit of measure in the United States?

Pressure units of measure are millibars and inches of mercury

The Hadley cell results in the ____ effect at the tropic of cancer.

Data has to be collected over 30 years for a specific location to be considered good climate data

_____ measures the rotational effects of spinning parcels and can be positive, negative, or neutral.

When potential energy increases, kinetic energy _____

Winter solstice in northern hemisphere is when?

Moist air is heavier than dry air

When an air parcel descends in the atmosphere it expands

The sun is mainly composed of what kind of gas?

Current drift is a current's direction

Summer solstice in the northern hemisphere is when?

Precipitation character are what?

Diurnal tides have one low and one high tide per tidal day

Aurora Borealis is located in the southern hemisphere

MODCURVES provide a forecast of diurnal pressure or temperature change in graphic form.

Density is directly proportional to mass when volume is constant

What are the sun's surface and atmospheric layers?

Relative humidity is dependent on _____ and ______

Sunspots are regions of WARMER temperatures within the photosphere

This reference tool provides general weather data for a given month for a specific location

Occurs when wind direction changes 45 degrees or more in less than 15 minutes with sustained wind of 10 knots or more

Perihelion is when the earth is closest to the sun

Gyres move in what way in the northern hemisphere?

What are the five layers of the atmosphere?

This space weather feature starts at the sun's corona and travels through interplanetary magnetic field at 1,000,000 mph

When the wind is to your back the lower pressure will be to your ____ in northern hemisphere

Semidiurnal tides have one low and one high tide

What are the ionosphere's layers during the day?

Plages are regions of warmer temperatures within where?

________ is released and absorbed by the atmosphere when there is a change of state

What kind of current is the California and what is it's set?

This cloud are wide clouds with diffuse edges, found in a uniform sheet, and has no vertical extent

Solar cycles vary year to year depending on the amount of detectable sunspots

_______ is forward-scattered radiation and strikes objects larger than its wavelength

The primary cause of the polar front jet is ______.

Vernal Equinox is when in the northern hemisphere?

Coastal upwelling is when cold water is forced to the surface and the surface waters move away from the coastline

Which etage does a cirrus cloud form in?

The Canary Current is a cold current

When is autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere?

Coriolis force deflects air parcels to the ____ in the northern hemisphere.

These are long non-breaking waves created by strong winds

WSCC Tables are used to forecast probability of occurrence for specified visibility and cloud ceilings

Geostrophic winds is achieved when Coriolis and gradient forces are in balance.

This lapse rate results in a unstable atmosphere

Jet streams are strong horizontal winds concentrated in narrow bands.

What is short-wave fade?

Scattered sky condition is 3/8 to 5/8

Humid micro-thermal climates experience MILD winters

The best conductor(s) is/are

_______ is when parcels from two different directions merge together.

The Peru current is apart of which gyre?

If temperatures are below freezing in the warm rain process it produces _____, and cold rain process produces _______

The base of the celestial dome

A cold current is when...?

Weight's definition is...

Angle of incidence causes solar radiation to be ______ dispersed

Spring tides are when the sun and moon are perpendicular to the earth

Sensible heat is the amount of energy it takes to raise 1 gram of a substance one degree Celsius

Tower visibility is the prevailing visibility determined from the air traffic control tower

Where are corona holes located on the sun?

Sea-level pressure is used by who?

Adiabatic process is considered a _____ process

_______ is what deflects visible radiation to the sides of objects and makes the blue sky, sunsets, and sunrises

Who manages and collects data from magnetometers?

Kirchhoff's Law is defined as...

________ is isolation that is reflected (or back-scattered) into space

What is the response of a geomagnetic storm?

Contour gradient force initiates ______.

Scintillation results from irregularities in density of ionosphere, causing variations in character of signal