Eco Hydrology

Question 1

What does “mean wind” mean?

Answer 1

Mittlere Windgeschwindikeit

Question 2

What does “advect” mean?

Answer 2

Advect means the transport of an atmsphere property (temperature, humidity) by moving air.

Question 3

What is a “rain shadow”?

Answer 3

A rain shadow is the drier side of a mountain - the wind has pushed air air over the mountain, so it rained on one side and is dry on the other side. The drier side is the rain shadow.

Question 4

What is Frontal Rain?

Answer 4

When cold (polar) air meets warm (tropical) air they create a front (instead of mix), the warm air rises above the cold air and then it rains.

Question 5

What is Orographic Rain?

Answer 5

When air is pushes by wind over a mountain, it gets colder in the process and rains down. When the air comes down after the mountain, it gets warmer and therefore drier again.

Question 6

What is Convectional Rain?

Answer 6

When the sun warms the land, the land warms the air, so the air rises up to a point where the water condenses and rains down.

Question 7

What does ISC mean?

Answer 7

Impervious surface cover

Question 8

Was ist der Versieglungsgrad (also % von Versieglung) auf englisch?

Answer 8

Percent catchment impervious surface cover