Step 3 Flashcards
Stadium effect
Eyewall convective cloud slope outward eye is larger at the top and smallest at the bottom because air in the eyewall follow isolines of equal angular momentum which slope outward
Category 2 damage
Extensive major roof damage shallow rooted trees total power loss for days - weeks
November Storms
1 western Caribbean southwestern and central Atlantic
Category 5
Catastrophic homes destroyed trees and power lines down outages for weeks to months
What supplies mass to mid and low level subtropical highs
Resultant increase in wind speeds creates subtropical jet stream
Cannot cycle
System or engine transfers energy in the form of heat between two thermal reservoirs
On a large - scale air flows - from high pressure to low pressure in the eye and underneath the eye wall
Inward
Synoptic surveillance and research flights can improve model forecast by
30%
ADT tends to - which degrades objective intensity estimates
Jump back and forth between scene types
Hadley cell is - circulation
Thermally direct
Mature tropical cyclones can evolve into
Spatially synoptic-scale weather systems
Flooding and storm surge is responsible for - of all US Tc related fatalities
76%
Cdo
Central dense overcast - dense solid looking mass of clouds covering csc
What percent of Dvorak intensity estimates are within 6 knots of actually intensity
50
Derived from multiple objective algorithms
Satcon
