by digistrait@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2023 | Geography Beginner
Jet streams are high-speed winds that occur in narrow bands of upper air westerlies. The width of this airband can be 160-480km wide and 900-2150m thick, with core speed exceeding 300km/hr. Jets are coincident with major breaks in the tropopause. Jet Streams develop...
by digistrait@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2023 | Geography Beginner
Fronts Fronts are boundaries between air masses of different temperatures. Fronts are zones of transition, sometimes with a sharp frontal zone. Fronts are typical in midlatitudes weather, uncommon in tropical and polar regions. Front is a three-dimensional boundary...
by digistrait@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2023 | Geography Beginner
Air Mass Air over a uniform area for a long time takes on the area’s characteristics Uniform areas include vast oceans, plains, and plateaus Air with distinctive temperature and humidity is called an air mass Air masses are large bodies of air with little...
by digistrait@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2023 | Geography Beginner
A tropical cyclone is a weather phenomenon that is essentially a rapidly rotating storm system with characteristics such as a low-pressure center, strong winds and thunderstorms that produce heavy rain, among others. Tropical Cyclones Tropical cyclones are violent...
by digistrait@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2023 | Geography Beginner
There are two mechanisms of energy transfer: circulation patterns in the atmosphere and in the oceans These mechanisms shift warmth from low latitudes towards high latitudes, moderating both high and low latitudes The atmosphere and oceans are enormous thermal...
