Exam 3 Natural Disasters

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relative humidity

Back 1

vapor pressure in air to saturation vapor pressure at same temp

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when air temp hits dew point water condenses and....

Back 2

absolute humidity decreases

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high heat capacity

Back 3

temperature rise and fall is slow

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water has high latent heat

Back 4

heat absorbed during melting and evaporation and released during condensation and freezing

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warm moist air rises

Back 5

low pressure

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cool dry air sinks

Back 6

high pressure

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High pressure system

Back 7

rotates clockwise through coriolis effect

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low pressure system

Back 8

rotates counterclockwise through coriolis effect

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stable air

Back 9

air will not rise further than being lifted

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unstable air

Back 10

air is warmer than surrounding air, will rise further than lifted

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warm front

Back 11

warm air pushes into cooler air mass

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cold front

Back 12

cold air mass pushes into warm air

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occluded front

Back 13

cold front takes over a warm front lifting all of warm air mass

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monsoon

Back 14

area of mountains heat up and draws in moisture from surrounding oceans. rains

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ordinary cell life cycle

Back 15

cumulus-rising

mature- rain

dissapating-decending

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supercell

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rising air rapidly rotates, descending air rotates more slowly, tornadoes

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isolated thunderstorm

Back 17

local unstable air

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clustered thunderstorm

Back 18

chains of storms at different stages

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squall line

Back 19

along strong cold fronts, mid latitude cyclones

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haboobs

Back 20

dust storms

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funnel cloud

Back 21

rapid drop of pressure within tornado

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fujita scale

Back 22

tornadoes wind speed 0 to 5

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enhanced fujita scale

Back 23

better align wind speeds and damage

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mid latitude cyclones

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large storm systems, tornadoes, blizzards, dust storms, wind storms

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rotating winds around low pressure system

Back 25

mid latitutude cyclones

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tropical cyclones

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hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones

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low pressure center draws in moisture laden winds forced by coriolis effect to spiral

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tropical cyclones

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weaken over cooler water, rapidly weaken over landfall

Back 28

tropical cyclones

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saffir simpson scale

Back 29

cyclones categories 1-5

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galveston hurricane 1900

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galveston texas, no experience with storms, highly vulnrable to storm surge

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hurricane ike

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houston and galveston texas, lots of evacuation, some refused to leave, lots of damage and spread into south