Skew-T

Front 1

Isobars are what color horizontal, solid lines spaced at what mb intervals?

Back 1

Brown lines
10mb intervals

Front 2

What is an isobar?

Back 2

Lines of equal pressure

Front 3

Isotherms are the straight, solid, (what color) lines sloping from the lower (left or right) to the upper (left or right) with the spacing equal throughout the diagram.

Back 3

Brown lines
Left
Right

Front 4

What is an isotherm?

Back 4

Lines of equal temperature

Front 5

Isotherms are labeled in degrees fahrenheit or celsius?

Back 5

Celsius

Front 6

Dry adiabats are the slightly curved, solid, (what color) lines that slope from the lower (left or right) to the upper (left or right).

Back 6

Brown Lines
Right
Left

Front 7

What do dry adiabats indicate?

Back 7

They indicate the rate of temperature change in a parcel of dry air rising or descending adiabatically

Front 8

Saturation adiabats are the slightly curved, solid, (what color) lines sloping from the lower (left or right) to the upper (left or right).

Back 8

Green Lines
Right
Left

Front 9

What do saturation adiabats indicate?

Back 9

Saturation adiabats represent the rate of temperature change in a rising parcel of saturated air

Front 10

Three vertical staffs along the right side of the chart for use in plotting what?

Back 10

Upper-wind data.

Front 11

What is the height at which a parcel of air lifted dry
adiabatically until saturated and then moist adiabatically thereafter, would first become warmer (less dense) than the surrounding environmental air.

Back 11

The level of free convection (LFC)

Front 12

True or False: The Convection Temperature is the surface temperature that must be reached to start formation of
convective clouds by heating of the surface air layer.

Back 12

True

Front 13

What is the convection condensation level (CCL)?

Back 13

Is the height at which a parcel of air, if heated sufficiently from below, will rise dry adiabatically until it is just saturated.

Front 14

What is the Lifting Condensation Level (LCL)?

Back 14

The height at which a parcel of air becomes saturated when it is lifted dry adiabatically.

Front 15

What is the wet-bulb temperature?

Back 15

Is the lowest temperature to which a volume of air at
constant pressure can be cooled by evaporating water into it.