climate

• Weather - refers to day-day atmospheric conditions
• climate - the average weather conditions in a particular area over a long period of time.
• latitude - the distance from the equator
• prevailing winds - refers to the wind direction a particular area experiences
• types of prevailing winds:

  Polar easterlies

  Westerlies

  Horse latitudes

  Trade winds

  Doldrums
• factors that affect climate:

  Latitude

  Prevailing winds

  Altitude or height above sea levels

  Distance from the sea
• tropical climate - climates that are found near the equator
• Dry climate - involve very hot summers with seldom rains or precipitation
• temperate climate - climate that is neither too hot nor too cold, with a moderate amount of precipitation
• Continental climate - A climate characterized by hot, dry summers and cold, wet winters.
• Polar climate - cool summers and very cold winters
• Permafrost - layer of permanently frozen ground
• Crypto climate - the climate inside the building compared with that outside
• microclimate - refers to the climatic conditions in localized areas near earths surface
• type 1 - dry months of November to April and wet during the rest of the year
• type 2 - there is no dry season
• type 3 - seasons are not very pronounced
• type 4 - rainfall is more likely to be evenly distributed
• Monsoon - a seasonal shift in the direction of the prevailing winds of a region
• Amihan - (northeast monsoon)
• Habagat - (southwest monsoon) brings heavy rains
• Global warming - refers to the gradual increase of the overall temperature
• greenhouse effect - the sun's energy is being absorbed to warm the planet
• El Nino Southern oscillation - (ENSO) a significant climate phenomenon because of its ability to change the atmospheric circulation
• El Nino - Also called as the Little Boy and the ocean waters become warmer
• La Nina - Also called "Little Girl" and it is the cooling of the oceans surface
• Neutral - this brings warm moist air and warmer surface waters to the western pacific and keeps the central pacific cool
• tropical cyclone - refers to the rapid rotating storm formed over tropical oceans
• Hurricane - a type of tropical cyclone that forms over subtropical waters
• Typhoon - a mature tropical cyclone that usually originated in the northwest Pacific
• Classification of tropical cyclone:

  Tropical depression

  Tropical Storm

  Severe tropical storm

  typhoon

  super typhoon
• Weather satellite ground receiving station - this is used to monitor, observe, report, and collect atmospheric data for preparation and warning related to typhoons and etc.
• weather surveillance radar- used to track typhoons and cloud masses
• rawinsonde - it is an electronic device used for measuring wind speed and direction