Weather Project
(Abeyu Fentahun and Timothy Leonez)
Weather v.s. Climate
Radiation and Convection:
The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization.
The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat.
Tornadoes and Hurricanes
Info
The intense spinning of a tornado is partly the result of the updrafts and downdrafts in the thunderstorm interacting with the wind shear, resulting in a tilting of the wind shear to form an upright tornado vortex.
Places where they hit-
Northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska because of the flat dry terrain.
Instruments-
- The EF scales
- weather balloons
- Satellites; etc.
---------Hurricanes---------
Hurricanes are huge storms that can reach up to 600 miles across and can reach between 70-200 mph winds.Hurricanes have winds that spiral inwards and upwards.Hurricanes gather heat and energy from warm ocean waters.
Places where they hit-
They mostly hit around the Pacific Ocean.They hit around Florida
Instruments-
- satellites
- supercomputers
- drones; etc.
Wind patterns and breezes
Trade-Location: northern or northeastern
Wet or dry: Wet winds
Cause:The surface air that flows from these subtropical high-pressure belts toward the Equator is deflected toward the west in both hemispheres by the Coriolis effect
Polar-Location:blow from the poles and are deflected towards the west.
Wet or dry: Dry winds
Cause: air at the poles is cold and dense, creating high pressure.This high-pressure air heads to the equator, towards lower-pressure air
Westerlies-Location: move toward west to east
Wet or dry: Dry winds
Cause:Pressure is lower in the poles
Easterlies-Location:
Wet or dry:Dry winds
Cause:blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles towards low-pressure areas within the Westerlies at high latitudes.
------------Sea breeze v.s. Land breeze------------
Sea breeze: sea breezes happens during the day when the water is cool and the land is warm.
Land breeze: land breezes happen during the night when the water is warm and the land is cool.