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  • Explain what drizzle is.
    Very light rain
  • What are PIREPs?
    Reports sent by pilots who have recently flown through an area and can keep other crews informed of the changing weather conditions
  • Why has ISA been established? (2)
    to provide a common reference for standardization of aircraft performance (assessment, comparison) and is used by pilots to calibrate the flight instruments
  • What does 'tentative' mean?
    not definite or certain, and may be changed later:
  • What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
    humidity
  • Where can the protective ozon layer be found? What does it protect us against?
    In stratosphere; against harmful sun radiation
  • Define surface wind currents.
    Steady large- scale winds that blow in a particular area/ in given latitudes caused by changes in temperature and Coriolis effect
  • Explain what slush is.
    Snow that is starting to melt on the ground
  • Explain what sleet is.
    A mixture of rain and snow
  • What are tropopause folds?
    places where cool air meets hot air 40o, 55o, 60-700
  • What is the stratification of atmosphere based on?
    Changes in temperature
  • What is the atmosphere made up of?
    nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%) and other 1% of so called trace gases (argon, helium, water vapor, carbon dioxide…)
  • Explain the greenhouse effect.
    heat is trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases.
  • Define the atmosphere
    a layer of gases up to 40-kilometer altitude that is kept to the Earth due to the gravity force
  • Name three surface wind currents.
    doldrums, trade winds, westerlies, polar easterlies
  • Name three characteristic features of troposphere.
    laps rate - 6.5 0C/ 1000m; The thickness: 8km-16km; temperature: -50 to -80; All weather phenomena takes place there;
  • Define "precipitation"
    rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground
  • What is the weather like if it is scorching?
    very hot
  • What is ISA?
    It is an atmospheric model of how different properties of the Earth's atmosphere change over a range of altitudes
  • Explain how a microburst is formed.
    a shaft of fast-moving cold air that hits the earth from high up in the atmosphere, then explodes upwards and outwards.