Chapter 1 terms

Atmospheric composition

Climate

Environmental lapse rate

Ionosphere

Mesopause

Mesosphere

Stratopause

Stratosphere

Thermosphere

Tropopause

Troposphere

Weather

 

Chapter 2 terms

Advection

Albedo

Antarctic Circle

Arctic Circle

Convection

Eccentricity

Electromagnetic spectrum

Energy

Equator

Equinox

Greenhouse effect

Greenhouse gas

Heat

Inclination

Milankovitch cycle

Obliquity

Precession

Radiation

Reflection

Revolution

Rotation

ROYGBIV

Scattering

Solstice

Temperature

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Capricorn

Visible light

 

Chapter 3 terms

Absolute scale

Bimetallic strip

Celsius scale

Centigrade scale

Cooling degree-day

Fahrenheit scale

Heating degree-days

Isotherm

Kelvin scale

Maximum thermometer

Minimum thermometer

Thermograph

Thermometer

Wind chill

 

 

 

Chapter 4 terms

Absolute humidity

Adiabatic temperature change

Calorie

Condensation

Conditionally stable (neutral)

Convergence

Deposition

Dew point

Dry adiabatic rate

Evaporation

Freezing

Front

Humidity

Hygrometer

Latent heat

Melting

Orographic lifting

Parcel

Psychrometer

Rain shadow

Relative humidity

Saturation

Stable air

Sublimation

Subsidence

Transpiration

Unstable

Vapor pressure

Wet adiabatic rate

 

 

 

 

Chapter 5 terms

Advection fog

Bergeron process

Cirrus

Cloud

Cloud seeding

Collision-coalescence process

Condensation nuclei

Cooling fog

Dew

Evaporation fog

Fog

Freezing nuclei

Frontal fog

Radiation fog

Steam fog

Supercooled

Upslope fog

 

 

 

 

Chapter 6 terms

Air pressure

Anemometer

Aneroid barometer

Anticyclone

Anticyclonic flow

Barograph

Centrifugal force

Coriolis force

Cyclone

Cyclonic flow

Divergence

Friction

Geostrophic wind

Gradient wind

Gravity

Ideal gas law

Millibar

Pressure gradient force

Standard atmosphere

Wind

 

Chapter 7 terms

Bora

Chinook

Doldrums

El Niņo

Hadley cell

Horse latitudes

Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)

Jet stream

Katabatic wind

La Niņa

Midlatitude jet stream

Mistral

Monsoon

Polar easterlies

Polar front

Subtropical jet stream

Trade winds

Upwelling

Westerlies

 

 

Chapter 8 terms

Air mass

Arctic air mass (A)

Continental air mass (c)

Lake effect snow

Maritime air mass (m)

Polar air mass (P)

Tropical air mass (T)

 

 

Chapter 9 terms

Cold front

Cold-type occluded front

Cyclogenesis

Dryline

Front

Midlatitude cyclone

Occluded front

Squall line

Stationary front

Warm front

Warm-type occluded front