Quizbowl Weather Phenomena I

“Hook echo” pattern

Tornado

Rear flank downdrafts

Tornado

Mesocyclone

Tornado

Fujita scale

Tornado

Identified using WSR-88Ds

Tornado

TORRO scale

Tornado

Space types believed to create aurora borealis

Tornado

8 on Beaufort scale corresponds to low-level ___

Tornado

First prediction at Tinker Air Force Base, 1948

Tornado

Grazulis catalogue

Tornado

“Enhanced” scale accounts for construction quality

Tornado

Doppler radar

Tornado

Supercells

Tornado

land/waterspouts

Tornado

Debris signatures

Tornado

Rear flank downdrafts

Tornado

Rain-wrapped “bear’s cage”

Tornado

“Wedge” type

Tornado

“Stovepipe” types

Tornado

Deadliest ___ in Daulatpur/Saturia in Bangladesh

Tornado

Lead-time of 13 minutes by NOAA

Tornado

Cores heated by dry adiabatic subsidence

Tornado

Soloviev-Imamura scale

Tsunami

DART system

Tsunami

Green’s Law

Tsunami

Shoaling

Tsunami

Run-up

Tsunami

12 minute period

Tsunami

Beaufort scale

Wind

Weak in doldrums

Wind

Isotachs

Wind

Magnitude denoted by flags and pennants from barb

Wind

Ergs formed by

Wind

Foehn type

Wind

Katabatic type

Wind

Santa Ana type

Wind

Chinook type

Wind

Aeolian erosion

Wind

Betz’s Law

Wind

Creates Ekman transport

Wind

Silver iodide used to “seed”

Clouds

“Nacreous” types in poles

Clouds

Fallstreak holes

Clouds

Pileus type

Clouds

Collision-coalescence process

Clouds

“Marine brightening”

Clouds

Orographic lift causes

Clouds

Namesake “billows”

Clouds

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Clouds

Bergeron process

Clouds

Lamarck first classified ___

Clouds

Howard’s nomenclature system

Clouds

“Noctilucent” type

Clouds

“Lenticular” type

Clouds

Contrails

Clouds

Pseudomonas syringae

Clouds

Composed of ice crystals

Clouds

“Arcus” type

Clouds

“Overshooting top”

Clouds

Anvils

Clouds

“Mammatus” type

Clouds

CLAW hypothesis

Clouds

Iridiscence

Clouds

Kohler theory

Clouds

Volutus

Clouds

“Cataractagenitus” type

Clouds

Irisation

Clouds

Nucleation

Clouds

Manmade “sulfate aerosol” types

Clouds

Bases have “tubas” and “mammas”

Clouds

“Cirrus” type

Clouds

Namesake “thinning” via bismuth triiodide aerosols

Cirrus Clouds

Form downward tendrils called fall streaks

Cirrus Clouds

Uncinus type

Cirrus Clouds

Jet-made contrails

Cirrus Clouds

Rance Power Station

Tides

Amphidromic point

Tides

Occur half as often in Gulf of Mexico/South China Sea

Tides

Large examples in Bay of Fundy

Tides

Doodson method/numbers

Tides

S2 and M2 constituents

Tides

Semi-diurnal cycle

Tides

“Neap” types

Tides

“Spring” types

Tides

Caused by gravitational force of Moon

Tides

“Dynamic theory” by Laplace differential equations

Tides

State of syzygy

Tides

Divided into harmonic constituents

Tides

Produce namesake “bores”

Tides

Sun produces ⅓ of ___

Tides

Seleucus of Seleucia first correctly theorized ___

Tides

Seiches

Tides

Tractive force

Tides

Solitons

Waves

Korteweg-de Vries equation

Waves

Iribarren number

Waves

Swells

Waves

Guyots created via

Waves

Coriolis Effect

Hurricane

“Stadium effect”

Hurricane