Basic Questions Page
The ratio of the mass of water vapor to the mass of dry air in a sample of moist air is which of the following, mixing ratio or vapor pressure?
To find equivalent temperature, the first step is to find the intersection between a saturation mixing ratio line from the dewpoint curve and a dry adiabat from the temperature curve. Is this intersection called the LCL or the CCL?
The temperature at which dry air would have the same density as moist air at the same pressure is known as equivalent temperature or virtual temperature?
The equation for virtual temperature using what two variables that can be found using a Skew-T, temperature and relative humidity or temperature and mixing ratio?
What is the positive area on a sounding proportional to, CAPE or CIN?
The convection temperature is the temperature of what area that must be reached to start the formation of convection clouds by insolation, the surface or the 850 mb level?
The MCL is the lowest height at which saturation occurs after, (complete mixing of the layer or surface heating)?
The equilibrium level has what units, mb or ºK?
For determining stability on a Skew-T, the smaller the angle between the isobars and the temperature curve, the (greater or less?) stability there will be.
If the slope of the T curve is greater than the slope of the dry adiabat and the saturation adiabat, then that layer is absolutely stable, conditionally stable, or absolutely unstable?
Conditional instability means that the layer is stable only if it is and unstable if the layer is . (unsaturated, saturated or saturated, unsaturated)?
Neutral stability means a T curve is (perpendicular or parallel?) to a dry or a saturation adiabat.
An inversion is a departure from the normal increase or decrease of an atmospheric property as what changes, height or time?
At the surface in a radiation inversion, often the dewpoint is equal to the (mixing ratio or temperature)?