Describe the structure and composition of nails

Thursday, September 8, 2016 Severe and Unusual Weather Week 3 Latent Heating, Instability, Vertical Wind Shear, Differences between tropical and extratropical cyclones - Temperature and Dewpoint • Dewpoint measures the amount of water vapor in the air - If air calls to the dewpoint, it’s saturated - If the air keeps cooling, condensation will occur, and latent heat is released. • If air is unsaturated, it cools at 10°C per 1 km - keep the dewpoint the same as it rises • If air is saturated, it cools at 6°C per 1 km - What happens to air as it rises from the surface - Questions (Use the graph attached at the end of the notes to answer these questions) • Is there an area where the air is warmer than its environment If so, what happens to the air in this area - A) No; second question is irrelevant - B) Yes; air accelerates upward - C) Yes; the air keeps moving like it did before - D) Yes; air slows down its upward motion At what level does the air become saturated as it rises • - A) Surface (0 km) - B) 1 km - C) 2 km - D) 4 km - E) It never becomes saturated 1 Thursday, September 8, 2016 • At what level does the air start to become warmer than the air around it - A) Surface (0 km) - B) 1 km - C) 2 km - D) 4 km - E) It never becomes saturated At what level does the ris