Geography - Weather & Climate

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Insolation

The measure of sunlight

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Temperature, air pressure, Ocean currents,

What does insolation effect?

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Albedo

Measurement of the reflection of potentially receivable insolation off a surface

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Reflection

Potentially receivable insolation is sent back inro space or trophosphere

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Reradiation

Earth absorbs short-wave energy and releases it back into the atmosphere in the form of long-wave radiation

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Lapse Rate

Rate of changing in temperature with altitude overaging

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Temperature inversion

When rapid reradiation causes the earth’s surface than at the surface itself (“

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Valley Breeze

Warm air moves up slopes into mountain regions

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Convectional Precipitation

Rising, heated moisture-laden air

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Orographic Semester

Warm, moist air forced up a mountain where it cools and condenses at higher altitudes