ATMO 10/28 - Exam 2 Review

Exam 2 Topics:

Topic MC/SA
- Precip 2/0
- Lift Parcel (with table) 4/0
- Lift/Lower Parcel (no table) 2/1
- T'storms, occurrence/life cycle 2/0
- T'storm features (explanation) 4/2
- Lightning/Thunder 4/0
- Tornadoes 3/0
- Impacts Severe Weather 3/0
- 500mb map & Q's 6/0
- 500mb Q's (no map) 1/1
- Surface pressure, winds 2/1
- Upper level winds 0/1
- Ozone depletion 2/1
- UV exposure 1/1
- Numerical weather forecasting 0/0

Test Review:
- Flying west takes longer (head wind)
- Why are jet stream and 500mb winds westerly winds (flowing toward the east)?
- Heat and cold waves (exposure to temperatures) kill the most people each year
- Lightning distance = time / 5
- Sea level pressure equivalents can vary (sometimes lower here, sometimes lower there)
- Closer to solar noon has greater uv exposure
- Sweat does not help block UV
- Tucson has a relatively high altitude, clean atmosphere, and dry air allow more uv radiation to reach the surface
- Strong winds can occur from a distant thunderstorm (gust front from down draft)
- Merging gust fronts can form a new thunderstorm
- Low: SE winds warm humid air from gulf of mexico
- Middle: SW winds hot dry air from mexican highlands
- High: West winds cold air from north Pacific
- Convective cap: caps convection (inhibits t'storm formation) breaking this cap (via extremely unstable air) can cause super cell t'storms