GEOG 2505 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fluid Parcel, Cloud Base
28 Sep 2018
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Key terms: environmental lapse rate / sounding temperature / thermal profile / environmental. Sometimes, this is not an accurate representation of what is actually going on: cap / capping inversion: temperature increases with height indicating an area of negative buoyancy (cin) and can inhibit rising air. The cap is also sometimes referred to as cin or cinh: maximum parcel level: the maximum height a rising air parcel can attain. This is a good estimator for actual cloud-top height. Diagram information: parcel trajectory begins from the bottom of the sounding temperature and continues until it hits the diagonal line stemming from the dew point line. Cape): maximum parcel level: pretend to dump the cape into the funnel" at the top of the diagram, mixing ratio: dashed diagonal lines, temperature: straight diagonal lines. The smaller the cap, the easier it is for storms to form.
