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WEATHER AND CLIMATE
IMPORTANT TERMS/CONCEPTS FOR PART III

poll4.gif (87 bytes)Winds
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Anemometer
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Wind Vane
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Up/Downdrafts
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Isobars
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Pressure Gradient Force
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Coriolis Force/Effect
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Friction Force/Layer
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Anticyclone (High Pressure Cells)
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Cyclones (Low Pressure Cells)
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Subsidence
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Divergence
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Ascension
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Convergence
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Aleutian, Icelandic Low
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Siberian, Canadian High
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Subtropical High Zone (STH)
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Midlatitude Convergence Zone (MLCZ)
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Polar High Zone (PH)
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Hadley Cell
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Equatorial Trough
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Doldrums
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Trade Winds
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Westerlies
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Horse Latitudes
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Polar Easterlies
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Land-Sea Breezes
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Valley-Mountain Breezes
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Katabatic Winds
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Geostropic Winds
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Upper-Level Westerlies
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Polar Front
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Rossby Waves
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Polar/Subtropical Jet Stream
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Ocean Currents
poll4.gif (87 bytes)Gyre
poll4.gif (87 bytes)El Nino (pp. 274-275)

poll1.gif (93 bytes)Air Mass Properties
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Air Mass Classification
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Source Region
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Characteristics, Symbolization and Diagrams of Cold, Warm, Occluded and Stationary Fronts
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Midlatitude Wave (extratropical) Cyclones
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Cyclogenesis
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Tropical Cyclones and Hurricanes (Typhoons)
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Storm Eye
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Storm Surge
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Tornadoes
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Mesocyclone
poll1.gif (93 bytes)Thunderstorm Cells

poll2.gif (87 bytes)Climate/Climatology
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Koppen-Geiger Climate Classification
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Biomes
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Climographs
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Tropical Climates (A)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Af (Tropical Rain Forest)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Aw (Tropical Savanna)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Am (Tropical Monsoon)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Monsoon Winds (pp. 163-166)
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Subtropical and Marine West Coast (C) [Mesothermal]
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Cfa,Cfb (Humid Subtropical)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Csa,Csb (Mediterranean)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Cfb,Cfc (Marine West Coast)
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Continental Climates (D) [Microthermal]
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Dfa,Dfb (Humid Continental)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Dfc,Dfd (Subarctic)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)Dw_ (winter drought)
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Polar Climates (E)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)ET (Tundra Climate)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)EF (Ice Sheet Climate)
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Desert/Steppe Climates (B)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)BWh (Low-Latitude Desert)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)BSh (Low-Latitude Steppe)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)BWk (Midlatitude Desert)
poll0.gif (88 bytes)BSk (Midlatitude Steppe)
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Highland Climates (H)
poll2.gif (87 bytes)Equator-to-Pole Climate Transect; Continental and Maritime Routes

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For further information, please contact

Dr. Kenneth M. Hinkel, Department of Geography, 400F Braunstein, ML 131, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0131
Phone: (513) 556-3430, Fax: (513) 556-3370, E-mail: Kenneth.Hinkel@uc.edu