HODOGRAPHS, BUOYANCY, COLD POOL/SHEAR INTERACTIONS - IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS
- What is a hodograph and how is vertical wind shear represented?
- Draw a vertical wind profile that would produce a straight hodograph?
- What kind of wind profile woud produce a clockwise hodograph?
- How does one estimate storm motion of an ordinary cell with the hodograph?
- What is buoyancy? Units?
- what contributes to positive and/or negative buoyancy?
- How is buoyancy related to CAPE? What is CAPE? What assumptions are made when calculating CAPE?
- Discuss the relationship between downdraft strength and the wet bulb potential temperature.
- What factors contribute to stronger updrafts and downdrafts?
- Discuss the physical processes that lead to vorticity generation.
- Discuss how cold pool/shear interaction leads to preferential lifting of parcels on the down-shear flank of a circular cold pool.
- What is the significance of C = delta U?