GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Solar Irradiance, Latent Heat, Atmospheric Pressure
30 Sep 2020
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Weather is the daily or weekly changes in wind, moisture and temperature of an area. Weather in an area over a period of many years, annual rainfall long range large scale. Shows the extremes; hottest temp ever was 136 degrees f, coldest temp ever -139 degrees. What drives temperature, and drives wind, altitude drives temperature. If you start at 60f and you increase in altitude you"ll get colder. Temperature can inverse because of winds and lower pressures underneath, can create a health issue. Cold air underneath warm air; opposite of normal: causes more pollution; instead of going up and out; it gets trapped under a ceiling, only in certain geographic areas. Wherever it gets more urban, it looks like an island with heat: hotter in urban areas. Absorb heat and reradiate it at night, and night it is more extreme.
