Weather, Climate, and Other Science Topics
Good evening everybody! Today was beautiful! Most locations around Western Washington got into the upper 70s to lower 80s, and some areas east of the crest got much warmer! The Dalles was 96 degrees at 5 pm, but Buoy 46026 off the Columbia River was only 58. The Pacific Ocean sure cools things off! As […]
Thursday, October 31, 2013 10:00 p.m. We’ve already gone through a couple of variables representing the amount of water vapor in the air. These are e, the partial pressure of water vapor, and T_v, the virtual temperautre, which is equal to 1/ε*T. There are some we haven’t gone over though, so I’ll go over them […]
Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:37 p.m. An adiabatic process is a process in which a material undergoes a change in its physical state without releasing or extracting any heat from the atmosphere. In other words, dq = 0 in the equation below, where dq = change in thermal energy (this is the first law of […]
Thursday, October 31, 2013 5:54 p.m. Our third law that we will concern ourselves with is the first law of thermodynamics. It will be the third of the “big six” we will look at for now. Here’s the law. This law says that the heat added to a certain mass of a gas is equal […]
Happy Halloween! Our professor told us there are six laws that govern the atmosphere. Today, we just finished talking about Newton’s 2nd Law, which, as opposed to just being F=ma, is F = 1/(ρ)*gradient(P)*(fk X v)*av. I think. I still have to review that… today’s lecture was more confusing than why Rebecca Black ever […]
Monday, March 7, 2011 2:41 A.M. Hey everybody, I can’t fall asleep, so what better thing to do than write a weather forecast? Sounds like a plan to me. We have been seeing cooler than normal weather for spring, which is actually very typical weather. What I have noticed is that spring weather is usually […]
