Geography 2152F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jet Stream, Eugenius Warming, Bastrop State Park
4 Feb 2019
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Reading #2 review questions: explain the science behind how el ni o and la ni a are able to influence weather patterns worldwide. A: during el nino, warm water that normally sits in the central pacific surges towards the east in the direction of south america. For la nina, the warm water shrinks and retreats towards the western pacific. The heat and water vapor from the warm pool generates thunderstorms that can extend towards the jets streams out of the tropics, which blows across the middle latitudes. A: there has been increase in atmospheric moisture. A: a hotter, wetter atmosphere would promote more thunderstorms. Give two examples of this as described in the reading. A: texas and arizona due to extreme hot weather, drought and forest fires. A: the forest fires that occurred in september outside of bastrop state park. The forest fires that occurred in september outside of.
