Chapter 8, EXAM 2-  Thursday March 9 (vocabulary )

Air

composition (Figure 8.1 & Table 7.4, Fig. 8.2b)

effect of rising, falling (cartoon & Fig. 8.2a) 

humidity, dew point (Fig. 8.2b)

impact of water/land on wind & rain (Fig. 8.17, Fig 8.16c )

if you are interested, read about lake effect snow ( link )

• Atmospheric Circulation: WIND
• Introduction , ( World ) what we know, why? how did we do ?  
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• Uneven Solar Heating and Latitude: (cartoon ) ( Fig. 8.4 )  ( Fig. 8.5a ) (Fig. 8.5b)
• Uneven Solar Heating and the Seasons: ( cartoon ; Fig 8.6: orbital inclination )  (sunlight & seasons)
• Uneven Solar Heating and Atmospheric Circulation: ( Convection - Figs. 8.7 & 8.8 )
• Humidity
• The Coriolis Effect ( another explanation )
• Newton's Law of Motion ( cartoon )
• Cannon balls ( cartoon & Fig. 8.9 , Fig. 8.11 & 8.12 )
• deflection right in the Northern Hemisphere
• deflection left in the Southern Hemisphere
• the earth is an oblate spheroid (cartoon )
• The Coriolis Effect and Atmospheric Circulation Cells (Fig. 8.13)
 

Hadley Cells   Ferrel Cells   Polar Cells

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• Wind Patterns: Winds named for the direction they come from
• "Special" surface wind zones
• doldrums
• ITCZ
• horse Latitudes (& deserts)
  
• Surface wind bands
• Trade Winds
• Westerlies
• Polar Easterlies
• Impact on precipitation
• dry falling air, wet rising air
• link to storms
• shifts with seasons (Fig. 8.14, 8.15) ( Feb. vs. June )
• STORMS
• Extratropical storms: frontal systems (Fig. 8.19 )
Low & High pressure systems
• Any ET's today over the US? ( link )
• Winter hemisphere effect, (Feb. vs. June ) why? ( today? )
• Nor'easters 
• Map - Presiden'ts Day Storm Feb. 2003 ( link )
• Coast during storm ( picture ) (Cheseapeake Bay) (DC) (links)
  
• Tropical Storms: Hurricanes (Fig. 18.23 ) 
• development from tropical storms ( link )
• Today's surface water temperatures (Fig. 8.24)
  
•  weather underground link
  
• where they come from and go (like 8.24a  link )
• general circulation ( N. vs. S. Hemisphere)
• monitoring - tracking (Fig. 8.25b) ( pictures )
• damage - charts ( link )
• Population & hurricane incidence (link)
  
• Floyd NOAA  ( picture ) 
  
• Fran picture; Bonnie Temperature
  
• N. Carolina flood. Rain. Satellite Images . (story - link )
• Report on Weather Events (Mitch) 
• damage - Saffir Simpson Scale (discussion)
• damage - more pictures (Galveston (Fig.Box1) , Andrew )
• damage - most costly and deadly is storm surge !
(another link ) Force of the waves (picture )
At Sea (picture )
US $1billion + disasters ( Link )