air masses and severe weather
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Air Masses and Severe Weather. Integrated Science. Air Mass. Huge volumes of air that can cover entire continents or oceans Several types that each have specific characteristics see text p. 689. Atmospheric Lifting. Clouds are indicators of weather - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Air Masses and Severe Weather
Integrated Science
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Air Mass
Huge volumes of air that can cover entire continents or oceansSeveral types that each have specific characteristics see text p. 689
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Atmospheric LiftingClouds are indicators of weatherFor clouds to form, air must be liftedThree types of lifting cause clouds.
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Lifting Type #1Convectional LiftingEarth’s surface is heated by the sun, which heats the air mass above it. The heated air will then rise.
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Convectional Lifting
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Convectional Lifting
If cooling occurs near the air mass’ saturation temperature, often cumulus clouds may form
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Convectional LiftingOften happens in the mid-west during summer
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Atmospheric Lifting Type #2
Orographic LiftingAn air mass is pushed upward over an obstacle, such as a mountain range.
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Atmospheric Lifting Type #2Orographic
As the air mass is pushed over the obstacle, the air mass will lose moisture in the form of clouds, rain, or snow
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Atmospheric Lifting Type #2
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Atmospheric Lifting Type #2
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Atmospheric Lifting Type #2
The clouds dump their load of rain on the windward slopeThe down slope (leeward) air will be dry = rain shadow
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Rain shadow- orographic lifting
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Rain shadow Western Kansas is so dry only certain short grasses can grow; not enough rain for trees
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Rain Shadow; Big Hatchet Mt, New Mexico. Notice how dry the land is
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Orographic Lifting – Chinook Winds
At the high elevations of the top of a mountain, the air pressure is low.As the air descends the mountain is under more pressure.The increased air pressure heats the air causing warm winds called Chinook WindsTemperatures can rise 20-300 as air moves down the mountain
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Chinook Winds
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Atmospheric Lifting Type #3
Frontal LiftingThis occurs at the mesh point between two different temperature air masses.One air mass (warm) is pushed upward by the other (cold).This can be associated with thunderstorms.
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Frontal LiftingThree types of frontal liftingA) warm frontB) cold frontC) Stationary front
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Frontal LiftingCold Front: When a cold air mass moves into a warm air mass.Cold, denser air forces the warm air up where it cools and condenses, forming clouds
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Cold Front:Warm air is abruptly pushed upward, cooling, condensing moisture into cumulus or cumulonimbus clouds
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Cold FrontNotice how
steep the angle is between the two air massesTypically brings sudden, heavy
rains and storms
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Cumulonimbus: Lake Superior
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Warm FrontWARM FRONT: when a warm air mass moves into a colder,denser air mass.Warm air rides up and over the colder air
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Warm front
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Warm FrontNotice the angle of slope between the two air masses.
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Warm FrontFrom the ground, one would observe the following cloud sequenceA) cirrusB) cirrostratusC) altostratusD) stratusE) nimbostratus
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Warm FrontThe weather during a WARM FRONT starts with cirrus clouds about 24-48 hours before the rain beginsCirrus clouds are “at the front of the front”
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Warm FrontAs more warm air is pushed upward, more moisture condenses forming cirrostratus clouds
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Cirrostratus on Lake Superior
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Warm FrontAs warm more warm air is pushed up, heavier clouds form mid-way up over the cold airAltostratus and stratus
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Altostratus clouds: Lake Superior
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Warm FrontThe final cloud type in a warm front is the nimbostratus“nimbo” = “rain”
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Warm FrontWarm front: rain or snow is steady over several hours or days
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Quiz Yourself!!! T or F
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QUIZ: T or F
For clouds to form, air must be liftedThere are FOUR different types of liftingOrographic lifting refers to air moving up and over a mountain
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QUIZ: T or F
Convectional lifting is the circulation of warm air rising, cold air sinkingA rain shadow is caused by WET air descending down the leeward side of a mountainA WARM FRONT means warm air is riding up over cold airA WARM FRONT produces sudden, severe rain and storms
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Severe Weather
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Thunderstorms Cold FrontsBegins with humid air rising, cooling, and condensing into a single cumulus cloud.Cloud builds as they are “fueled” by warm, moist air from below.
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Thunderstorms
The droplets of water grow larger until they are so big that they fall as rain.
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Cumulonimbus clouds: L Superior
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Thunderstorms (con’t)Lightning may be associated with T.stormsHits Earth 100 times per secondOver 200 people in the US die each year from lightning.
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LightningLightning is the cause of thunderreturns nitrogen to the soilmay cause fires May have helped start pre-biotic formation of amino acids(?)
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Lightning FormationDuring thunderstorms strong updrafts cause molecules to bump together and their charges to separateNegative charges concentrate at the base of the clouds
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Lightning FormationThe ground has lost electrons, giving it a positive (+) chargeOpposites attract: The (-) from the cloud base is “pulled” to the (+)First downward movement of (-) is called a leader
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Lightning FormationWhen the (-) and (+) touch, they create a conductive path to the ground.The other (-) rush down this path = lightning
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Lightning on L.Superior
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Lightning on L.Michigan
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Lightning strike
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Quiz Yourself!! TRUE or FALSE
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TRUE or FALSE?????
Cumulonimbus clouds can become thunderstormsStratus clouds produce sudden, severe thunderstorms and lightningLightning forms because of unequal charges
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Tornadoes
A funnel shaped cloud that extends downward from a cumulonimbus cloud.Called a tornado only once it hits the ground.Winds inside travel at up to 800km per hour in counterclockwise direction.
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Hurricanes
Caused by a warm, vertical wind interacting with an existing storm and causing the storm to turn inward and spiral.Wind speeds of up to 300km per hour.Hurricanes grow as more moist air rises into it.Severe winds rotate around a calm, low pressure zone in the middle, which is the eye of the storm.