ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Week 5


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ANNOUNCEMENTS - Week 5

13 October 2000

  1. By now most LITs have had their mid-course meeting. If you have not done so already, would LIT leaders please return the forms listing participants who received NOAA Weather Radios. These are needed for NSF-grant auditing purposes. We also welcome brief comments on the meetings and the progress of the course to date. If there are participant criticisms, we would like to know what these are. Please let us know if any difficulties are being encountered and how they are being, or can be, addressed.

  2. Basically "final" Fall 2000 DataStreme numbers are 83 LITs enrolling 629 participants from 46 states. This is a great accomplishment, congratulations! Based on recent comments we have heard from a number of sources, your efforts are having significant impact at national and state levels.

  3. LIT leaders should have (finally) received LIT Verification Forms. Please verify the accuracy of the information for our database (i.e. participant names for certificates, LIT members for honoraria, etc.) and fax it back immediately. To provide honoraria, we need a LIT Information Form on file for all new LIT members. Also, if information for leaders or LIT members has changed, please fax an updated LIT Information Form to DataStreme Central. (For single change items for continuing members, such as new telephone number, an email may suffice.)


WEEK 5 ANSWER KEY

A. CHAPTER PROGRESS:

  1. 14.7 lb./sq.in., . . 1.0 kg/sq. cm
  2. aneroid
  3. 29.92 in. of mercury
  4. 1013.25 mb
  5. 5.5 km
  6. approx. 10 km (~250 mb)
  7. 0 m, . . altitude
  8. more
  9. decreases, . . lower
  10. fall
  11. is . . . (the central pressure in one Low could be more than the value in a High somewhere else on the map. The Low must have a central value lower than those immediately surrounding it, while the High's central value must be higher than its immediate surroundings.)
  12. rise
  13. - 15. [as appropriate by participant]

B. DAILY SUMMARY:

Tuesday:
1. increasing
2. little or no
Thursday:
1. in the Standard Atmosphere
2. lower

ACTIVITIES RESPONSE

ACTIVITY 5A:

  1. no answer needed
  2. the same
  3. south
  4. overcast, . . fog, . . 2 miles, . . fell, . . 1012 mb, . . 1001 mb
  5. 05Z, . . rise, . . fall, . . northwest, . . about 72 °F, . . 55 °F, . . 17 F°, . . thunderstorm
  6. south, . . west
  7. lower than
  8. 7 hours, . . 57 km per hr
  9. fall, . . fall, . . south to west or northwest, . . rises
  10. on Rapid City meteogram
  11. 1020 mb, . . . 1016 mb (approx.), . . . 22Z, . . . falling
  12. southeast, . . . rising
  13. rising, . . . 13 F°, . . . 17 F°, . . . north
  14. cold, . . . cold
  15. stationary, . . . clockwise and outward
  16. the same as, . . . 1042 mb (approx.), . . . rising, . . . northeast or northwest
  17. decreased, . . . southeast or southwest, . . . west

ACTIVITY 5B:

  1. no answer needed
  2. equal
  3. twice
  4. twice the, . . equal
  5. greater
  6. equal
  7. Tall-Block
    Pressure
    (UP)
    Short-Block
    Pressure
    (UP)
    Pressure
    Difference
    (UP)
    On Top Surface 3 1 2
    On Lower Surface 4 3 1
    On Table Top 5 5 0
  8. increases, . . shorter, more dense
  9. see Key Image 1, . . more
    (Image 1 is for your reference, it was not requested to be faxed by participants)
  10. 200 mb
  11. inclined
  12. downward
  13. higher than
  14. 700 mb
  15. lower than, . . . about 2900 m actual (versus 3100 m on altimeter)
  16. lower
  17. 	Press.   CHH Temp.  CHH Alt.
    	(mb)       (C)        (m)
    	----------------------------
            200      -44.5      11660
    	300      -40.1       8920 
    	400      -37.3       6950
    	500      -28.9       5390
    	700      -14.3       2909
    	850       -4.7       1413
           1000        6.2        106
    
     
  18. 5390 m, . . . about -29 °C
  19. all should be circled: 1000, 850, 700, 500, 400, 300, 200
  20. MFL, . . . MFL: 2702 m, . . . CHH: 2481 m, . . . greater
  21. lower

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