Meteorology Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (37) essays
Meteorology essays:
Description of meteorology and different fields meterologists can work in
... job opportunities than just relaying information on to local citizens. Meteorology is defined by American Meteorological Society as, "the science of the atmosphere." The name meteorology is derived from the Greek word meteoron, meaning something that happens high in the sky. Aristotle ...
Luke Howard: The Namer of Clouds
... dark, white, gray, black, mare's tails, wooly, etc. Sometimes, clouds were used as weather forecasting tools, but mainly by their state of darkness. This was probably because the nature of the atmosphere ...
Lightning
... the study of the earth's atmosphere and especially the study of weather. A meteorologist is a person who studies the atmosphere. One of nature's displays of electrical forces is the lightning storm. A lightning stroke is a brief but large current of negative charge that travels from cloud ...
Disasters, speaks of the study of hurricanes
... the West Indian word hurricane, meaning 'big wind' (New Orleans, weather). A hurricane forms in the tropics around warm water. It starts as a disorganized storm in the ocean. When it starts to become more organized, it will be put into the first of three classifications. The ...
Meteorology
... meteorologist after I graduate from college. A meteorologist is a scientist who studies the atmosphere and it's changing weather. Ever since my house flooded in 1995, I have been afraid of any bad weather. Last year I realized that I wanted to understand the way weather ...
Wind Summary
... high pressure creating trade winds. Also there are prevailing westerlies. In the mid latitudes, winds that blow in the direction of the poles are turned toward the east by the coriollis effect. Since they blow from west to east there are called the prevailing westerlies. The ...
Hurricanes
... travels north, northwest, or northeast from its point of origin, and usually involves heavy rains. A hurricane has and "eye" in the middle, and may appear as a huge swirling cloud when seen from outer space. Inside the eye of a hurricane there is calm weather. The ...
Measurement of the structure and composition of the Earth's atmosphere
... the small amount of oxygen still present. In this region of the atmosphere, ultraviolet radiation causes ionization. Radiation causes the scattered air particles in this layer to become electrically charged enabling radio waves to bounce off and be received beyond the horizon. At the ...
Meteorology - meteorologi
... med ett H. Lågtrycksområden finns ofta mellan Storbritannien och Island. Sen drar områdena sig in mot Skandinavien och det är därför vi har regn och blåsväder här ... fler människor kommer att få hudcancer och ögonskador. I Australien är ozonskiktet redan så tunt att radio och TV varnar för solbad under ...
Aurorae Borealis
... the same except that its? borders are irregular and curving. A very rare veil aurora appears as an extensive, uniform luminosity across the sky. If a veil is present but has dark holes where the sky is seeping through, it is called a black aurorae.Toward the ...