Weather
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- tropospheres altitude
- 5-10 miles deep
- water cycle
- the sun provides the energy to evaporate water into the atmosphere where it forms clouds and eventually falls back to earth
- AWS(automatic weather stations)
- are highly technical pieces of equipment based on ground that take readings of temperature, humidity, windspeed, direction, baromatic pressure, and transmit weather stations
- exospheres altitude
- 310 miles
- weather balloons
- take electronic instruments high into the atmosphere and transit reading into ground stations
- mesosphere
- contains nitrogen oxygen molecules. still to thinly spread to allow breathing
- troposphere
- the air we breath. contains 99% of all atmospheres molecules. Contains molecules of O2, nitrogen, traces of water vapor, CO2, and many other gases contain flows, wind, and global weather pattern movements
- satellites
- orbit earth and transmit information about winds, clouds, ground temperature, and ocean waves
- atmosphere
- the multi layered 600 mile shield if gases that surrounds the earth
- factors that determine weather
- air pressure, wind, temperature, and moisture in the air
- greenhouse temperature
- 59
- five layers of earths atmosphere
- troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere
- thermospheres altitude
- 50-310 miles
- mesospheres altitude
- 30-50 miles
- exosphere
- consists mainly of hydrogen atoms
- stratosphere
- contains concentrated ozone levels. earths main shield from suns ultraviolet ray. occasional cloud and turbulence
- weather
- the daily condition of the atmosphere
- thermosphere
- below exosphere and contains ionosphere
- thermospheres temperature
- -9.4
- mesospheres temperature
- -30-0
- radar
- stands for radio and detection ranging. consists of a transmitter that fires off pulses of microwave radiation
- sun
- energizes the atmosphere into what we know as weather
- greenhouse effect
- natural lasting process of earth and its atmosphere
- geostationary satellites
- orbit above the equator at the same rotational speed as earths to remain over the same area
- stratospheres altitude
- 6-30 miles extended