Unit 1 Notes
Unit 1 Overview
Slide 2: Layers of the Atmosphere
Slide 3: Air Pressure and Layers of the Atmosphere
Slide 4: An Air Pressure Profile of the Atmosphere
Slide 5: Density of Air Molecules in the Atmosphere
Slide 6: What Makes Our Weather
Slide 8: How Unequal Heating Affects Circulation
Slide 10: Documenting Weather Conditions
Slide 11: Movement of Air in the Atmosphere
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Slide 13: A Modified LI: The Showalter Index
Slide 14: The K-index: Instability & Rainfall Potential
Slide 15: Convective Available Potential Energy
Slide 16: Instability Measures and Sounding Plots
Slide 17: A Lid on Convection: Capping Inversions
Slide 18: Recognizing Capping Inversions
Slide 19: If a Capping Inversion is Broken...
Unit 1 Overview
Welcome to the basics of meteorology. In Unit 1 we will look at the origin of earth's atmosphere, its structure, and how it produces the weather we experience each day.
In this unit we will determine that the unequal heating of earth's atmosphere by the sun is the primary cause of our weather, and we will study just how that unequal heating occurs.
Also, no study of meteorology would be complete without including station model data, or how atmospheric conditions are graphically recorded at specific locations.
Finally, a quick look at the atmospheric circulation patterns found here on earth, and the two basic movements of air within our atmosphere will round out the unit.
