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Studying World Climates – Climate Information Matrix

Posted in Climate, Study Aids, Unit 2 on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There is a lot of material to cover for the second unit test as it covers global climates. One way to synthesize your notes on global climate is to create a climate information matrix (linked here). Each column to the right of the list of climates refers to controls over climate. These are:
Global Wind and [...]

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Adiabatic Lapse Rates – Part 2

Posted in How to..., Lapse Rates, Study Aids, Unit 2 on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Constructing the adiabatic graphs in Exercise 6 seems to be the hardest part of the lab for most students. Take a few minutes to look over what you are expected to do. You will first plot the environmental lapse rate data on the [...]

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Adiabatic Lapse Rates – Part 1

Posted in How to..., Lapse Rates, Study Aids, Unit 2 on October 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

Lab manual exercise 6 explored the impact of adiabatic temperature change on the stability of the air. As a refresher, here is the explanation for finding the condensation level and drawing an adiabatic graph. Realize that in this exercise the effect of the dew point lapse rate is not taken into account and thus is [...]

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Using the saturation curve

Posted in How to..., Study Aids, Unit 2 on October 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

The saturation curve is used to help answer several questions in labs 5 and 6. As a reminder:

Determining the saturation point for a given air temperature:

If you know the temperature of the air, find its value on [...]

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The ITCZ?

Posted in Atmospheric Pressure and Wind, Unit 2 on July 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

A student recently asked “I was reading the last lecture in unit II and it mentioned sometime about ITCZ…. I remember reading about it in unit I but never really understood what it meant….???”
Well, the ITCZ stands for the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a broad belt of low pressure that straddles the equator. It is [...]

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The Coriolis Effect

Posted in Coriolis Effect, Study Aids, Unit 2, Visualizations on July 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

The Coriolis Effect (or force) is a subject that is often confusing to
students. The Coriolis Effect is the effect of earth rotation on the
direction (and path) of the wind. Use the following sites to help you understand how the Coriolis effect works:

Observe an animation of the Coriolis effect over Earth’s surface. (Exploring Earth)
Observe how [...]

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