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ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Week 5


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ANNOUNCEMENTS - Week 5

10 October 2001

  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.

    Remember, [reset your speed-dials, update your books] our address is now:

    American Meteorological Society
    Education Program
    1120 G. St., N.W., Suite 800
    Washington, DC 20005
    202-737-1043 (voice)
    202-737-0445 (fax)
    *** email address and 800 numbers remain unchanged! ***

  2. Basically "final" Fall 2001 DataStreme numbers are 28 LITs enrolling 184 participants from 23 states.

  3. LIT leaders should received LIT Verification Forms this coming week, 15-19 October. 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 by Monday, 22 October. To provide honoraria, we also need a LIT Information Form on file for all new LIT members. And, 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 the Vermont-Canada border, . . . in central Oklahoma
  11. 72 °F, . . . 70 °F, . . . south-southwest - (Charleston)
    45 °F, . . . 43 °F, . . . north - (Nashville)
  12. lower, . . . had already passed
  13. the same
  14. 70, . . . south, . . . falling, . . . rising
  15. overnight, . . . warm
  16. had
  17. falling steadily, . . . toward, . . . rise rapidly
  18. fell steadily, . . . a few
  19. rise

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. Miami
  18. 5900 m
  19. all circled (900, 700, 500, 300, 200) mb
  20. downward
  21. lower, . . . falling
  22. lower
  23. 204 mb, . . . lower

If you have comments or questions, you may send email to: amsedu@dc.ametsoc.org.

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