GEOL 1304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tropical Cyclone, Mebibyte, Fluid Parcel
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Examdeuce tornado formation: strong updrafts push button up horizontal aviation columns to vertical impact of hurricane. Widespread ooding -high winds-tornadoes-storm surge tropical cyclone basics. One c -600 miles diam -last about a week-moves at 10-25 mph-strong low pressure systems: 870-990 mb air the great unwashed classi cation: humidity m = maritime = moistc = continental = dry tropical cyclone. Major air masses affecting the usamoist, cool --> unstablepaci c (aleutian sir david depression ), Atlantic (icelandic low) subtropical jet stream latitude: 20 -l degreesaltitude: 10000-16000 m severe conditions thunderstormstornadoestropical cyclone clouds mass of tiny moisture droplet (20 um)raindrop: composed of ~1million+ moisture droplet cyclone in tropics = different than midlatitudes. No front line -no differing air masses saf r-wallis war eld windsor scale. Categorizes tropical storm/depression/hurricane-based on lead speeds polar cat valium stream latitude 30-seventy degrees, height 7600-10700m, lower altitude than subtropical b/c low tropopause oceans paci c 50 %atlantic 26%indian 20%arctic quadruplet %
