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Review Material For Quiz 2 Thursday March 13, 2002

Based on lecture and material from chapters 5 through 8

The Usual boiler plate follows:

1. Test will be about 30-35 questions with each question worth the same number of points

2. Test will be a mix of types including true-false, multiple choice, matching, short answer and fill in with perhaps a short problem or two based on exercises (none on the first exam) Later on in the course some questions may involve interpreting a map from the web. Probably 80% of the questions will be in the multiple choice/ true-false category

3. Emphasis will be on material emphasized in class

4. Some questions will involve simple feedback of something I have given you in class but as much as possible I like to ask questions that force you to think before you put down your answer. I place considerable importance on relationships, causes of events and processes

5. I suppose it is a matter of opinion but I don't like to ask questions on minutiae or "trick" questions that depend on minor changes of spelling or a change of phrase

6. Questions for Review in the back of each chapter are pretty good. You will see some of them in one form or another on the test

Material to emphasize from Text (Chapters 5,6,7,8,) . I have identified key page sections. Ignore focus sections unless I mention them specifically

110-111; 113-123 plus focus sections on 115 and 122

132-140; 142-152

166-179 and focus on page 177

190-213

Material to emphasize from Lecture

-general concept of humidity and importance to life on earth

-measures of humidity especially actual and saturation vapor pressure and mixing ratio

-concept of saturation and relationship to temperature

-relative humidity and dew point and daily variations

-relationship of dew point to actual vapor pressure

-vapor pressure and boiling

-evaporation (basic principles such as vp gradient and rh)

-general concepts influencing

-global patterns of evaporation

-condensation (dew and frost)

-condensation nuclei and cloud formation and problem of maintaining small cloud droplets

-fog (general principles of radiation, advection and steam fog only)

Know four basic cloud categories and 10 cloud types along with general characteristics. May very well put some on the board and ask you to identify

Adiabatic temperature change--moist and dry rates

Stability and Instability

How to make atmosphere stable or unstable

Conditional Instability

Triggering Mechanisms (4)

3 factors which largely determine stability (determinants of stability and instability)

Growth of cloud droplets (solute and curvature effect)

Collision Coalescence Process

Giant Soluble Nuclei (warm clouds) and Bergeron Process (cold clouds)

Principles and effectiveness of cloud seeding

Precipitation types and characateristics and conditions under which they form, including rain, drizzle, sleet, freezing rain and snow

Conditions under which precip droplets fall to ground (terminal velocity etc)

Measurement of Precipitation including characteristics and problems of rain gages and radar.

Key figures and tables

Figures 5.9 thru 5.12

table 6.1 6.2 6.3

figures 6.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.8 thru 6.20

figures 7.1 thru 7.17, 7.19

fig 8.1 thru 8.4, 8.6 thru 8.9, 8.19 thru 8.22, 8.27 and 8.29

table 8.5

The following Questions for review look interesting

page 127 2,5,7,8,9,10, 11,12,15,

page 162 3,4,5,6,9,

page 185 1 thru 17 all look good

page 214 1,2,3,8,9, 17,18,20

the following questions for thought look interesting

page 128--1,6,8, 11 thru 15

page 162 2,6,7,10,

page 214 3,6,9,10