Week 10

Question 1

What is the difference between weather and climate

Answer 1

Weather is the value of these properties for a specific day.
Climate is the expectation of these properties for a particular time of year.

Question 1

Name some properties of weather

Answer 1

Temperature
Precipitation
Pressure
Humidity
Wind speed

Question 2

What is a difference of climate and weather?

Answer 2

Climate isn’t chaotic, weather is
The chaos of weather averages out across the year to give expected values.

Question 3

How much water vapour does the atmosphere hold?

Answer 3

1.26x10^16 kg at any one time

Question 4

How do you calculate the resident timescale?

Answer 4

amount stored/rate of flux in and out of a store

Question 5

What influences the amount of water vapour in the air?

Answer 5

Temperature
humidity/saturation

Question 6

What is the relative humidity?

Answer 6

The percentage water vapour relative to the saturation pressure.

Question 7

What is the dry bulb temperature?

Answer 7

the air temperature as measured by a dry thermometer

Question 8

What is the wet bulb temperature?

Answer 8

The lowest temperature that can be obtained by a thermometer with water evaporating from the bulb