Session 5 - Meteorology 1
Topics
In this session you learn about:
- Vertical Structure
- Heating the Earth
- Introduction to Global Circulation
- Density and Pressure
- The “Standard” Atmosphere
- Expansion and Compression
- Pressure Measurements
- Pressure Systems
- Effects of Temperature
- Pressure Altitude
- Density Altitude
- Isobars
- Flight to Different Pressure Areas
- Flight to Different Temperatures
- Relative Humidity / Dewpoint
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- Aircraft Performance in Moist Air
- Sublimation/Condensation
- Adiabatic Lapse Rates
- Heating of the Atmosphere
- Cooling of the Atmosphere
- Inversions and Isothermal Layers
- Stable and Unstable Air
- Modification of Stability
- Cloud Formation
- Precipitation
- Lifting Processes
- Subsidence / Convergence
- Cloud Classification
- Associated Precipitation
- Turbulence
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References
From the Ground Up
- Chapter 6 - Aviation Weather
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