Monday, August 20, 2012
What makes Weather?
What makes this time, well, time? The simplest answer may be the Earth's atmosphere and the changes that take place there. But take the investigation a step further and ask how these changes occur. Or better yet, why they occur.
There is one factor that may make the most of the blame (or credit) depending on how the change in weather affects life on Earth. Without the sun, we would not have weather formations. First of all, without a sun to warm the planet's atmosphere and everything would be frozen. But thanks to the warmth of the sun masses of warm air, rise, cool, sink to the ground and so on. These patterns of movement have the task of creating distinct differences in atmospheric pressure. The resulting air movement is commonly called a victory.
Weather types are, to put it very simply, the result of constant interaction between the heat of the sun, atmosphere, and its masses of air and the ground or water under the air mass. As with all matter, air in the atmosphere is made up of molecules. While these basic elements of matter to move all the time, there are differences in the way in which the molecules are concentrated. When many molecules are packed together (denser) air pressure greater results.
This has mostly to do with the plants various styles of time and the experience of the animals throughout the world. The air pressure is stronger or closer to the surface of the Earth, and of course, this increased air pressure decreases. It 's well known that the atmosphere at sea level, 14 places and a half pounds of pressure per square inch, although the plants and animals are comfortable with this level of pressure.
Constantly moving the molecules in the air can "speed up" when it is heated or "slow down" when cooled. Heating a mass of air from the sun causes the mass to expand and become lighter. The mass of the lightest air then rises, completing a process called convection. This unique process is taking place somewhere constantly in the atmosphere, somewhere around the world.
However, the process is far from coherent when it comes to levels of heat. A number of factors may alter the activity of an air mass. For example, hot air over the ocean, for example, can increase in a first (low pressure), but will cool as it goes higher in the atmosphere. This air mass, now cold, it will eventually sink to the earth (high pressure). Air masses that move from one type of pressure area to another creates what we commonly called wind. It 'obvious that if there is a big difference between the area of high pressure and low pressure area resulting wind will be stronger.
There are some other factors to consider when it comes to weather and climate change. The orbit of the earth around the sun will have some effect on the conditions of the planet, as well as the rotation of the earth and the fact that it is tilted a few degrees on its axis. This tilt by itself has little to do with how much heat will receive a certain part of the Earth. Understanding these basic factors we can begin the road towards more solid understanding of the weather models .......
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