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 .p156 vapor saturation graph, g/kg: 50 @40C, 4.5 @0C, 2 @-10C, 1 @-20C, ~0 @-35C
 .p163 lapse rates: environmental ~6.5C/km, dry 9.8C/km, saturated ~6C/km
 .p182 hurricane rainfall carries 600 TW, perhaps 1.3e6 km²
 .p207 prediction improving (longer timespan into future, a day or two for local weather, extra hour or two for tornados)

Making Sense of Weather and Climate

Mark Denny, 2017, Beaverton 551.6 DEN

  • British Columbian author

A good general introduction to weather science, some phenomenolgical extrapolation towards climate.

  • p051 power difference about 1 W/m²
  • p073 1960s Mikhail Budyko 1-D energy balance model - hysteresis, but not albedo (volcano, etc.)
  • discussion of general circulation model and computational accuracy
  • p086 graphs of global temperature
  • p088 about 0.8C higher from anthropogenic CO₂

  • p103 Operational Environmental Satellites: GOES (geosync) and (POES) polar 14.1 orbits per day
  • p146 Single cell thunderstorm, 1e15 J, 16e6 tstorm/year globally, 2k at once, US 1e6/year, 10% severe
  • p147 supercell thunderstorm, cyclonic, many hours
  • p151 typical lightning, 5e8 J, 30 KA, about 0.25 sec in 3 or 4 strokes, peak power 1e12 W (microseconds)
  • p152 -23 MV, +79MV for one storm. globally 1.5 billion flashes per year
  • p156 vapor saturation graph, g/kg: 50 @40C, 4.5 @0C, 2 @-10C, 1 @-20C, ~0 @-35C
  • p163 lapse rates: environmental ~6.5C/km, dry 9.8C/km, saturated ~6C/km
  • p182 hurricane rainfall carries 600 TW, perhaps 1.3e6 km²
  • p207 prediction improving (longer timespan into future, a day or two for local weather, extra hour or two for tornados)

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