1. Lutgens & Tarbuck Power Point by Michael C. LoPresto
Chapter 3
Temperature
The Atmosphere 10e
Lutgens & Tarbuck Power Point by Michael C. LoPresto

2. Mount Washington
“The Home of the World’s Worst Weather”

3. Air Temperature Data Daily Mean Daily Range Monthly Mean Annual Mean
Annual Range

4. Isotherms

5. Hawaii’s
Highest
Recorded
Temperature
Is 38° C

6. Heat Waves- Deadly Events
Average-Annual
Weather-Related
Fatalities

7. Controls of Temperature
Land and Water

8. 81% of the
Southern Hemisphere
Is Covered by Oceans:
20% More than the
Northern Hemisphere…
…Annual Temperature Ranges
in the Southern Hemisphere Are Less

9. Controls of Temperature
Ocean Currents

10. Major Surface Ocean Currents

11. Rio de Janeiro
is warmed by the
Brazilian Current
and Arica
is cooled by the
Peruvian Current

12. Controls of Temperature
Altitude

13. Quito
Is at a
High Altitude
and Is Cold
Guayaquil
Is at a
Low Altitude
and Is Warm

14. Windward and Leeward Coasts
Controls of Temperature
Windward and Leeward Coasts

15. Geographic Position Relative to Mountains
Temperature Controls
Geographic Position Relative to Mountains

16. Temperature Controls Cloud Cover Clouds reflect incoming radiation…
…and trap
outgoing radiation…
Cloud Cover

17. …overcast
days have
lower highs
and
higher lows

18. similar all year-round
Cloud Cover
during the
summer rainy-season
keeps temperatures
in Myanmar
similar all year-round

19. Temperature Controls
Sun angles
vary with
latitude
Latitude

20. World Mean Temperatures

21. World Mean Temperatures

22. Global Annual Temperature Ranges

23. Daily March of Temperatures

24. …Winter Frost … or Summer Fog
Minimum daily temperature occurs near sunrise,
causing early morning…
…Winter Frost
… or Summer Fog

25. Daily Cycles of
Incoming
Solar Radiation
and
Temperature

26. Measuring Temperature
Maximum Thermometer
Minimum Thermometer
Liquid-in-glass
Thermometer

27. The
Urban
Heat-Island

28. Thermograph

29. Instrument Shelters
Modern Shelter
Traditional Shelter

30. Temperature Scales

32. Growing Degree-Days

33. Wind-Chill Factor

34. Chapter 3
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