GEOLOGY 322 - OCEAN SYSTEMS

Video 8 Atmospheric Circulation

Principles of atmospheric circulation:

1. What is the main source of driving energy for atmospheric circulation?
2. Why do we have winds on Earth?
3. What is different about Venus that makes it so hot?
4. What is different about the Moon that makes it so hot in the sun and cold in the shade?
5. What are the 3 greenhouse gasses named in the video?
6. What is the speed of motion of the earth at the equator?

30° N? 60°N 90°N?             .
What has this got to do with wind moving poleward at the equator?
With wind moving down (equatorward) at the poles?

7. At what latitudes are you most likely to find clouds on Earth?
8. At what latitudes are you most likely to find deserts on Earth?
9. How are atmospheric belts related to the seasons?  the monsoons?
10. Why are there more circulation bands in Jupiter's atmosphere than on Earth?
11. What is an isobar?
12. What is a cyclone?