What’s Tropical Cyclone (Typhoon)?
Tropical cyclones is one of the natural hazard for aviation. How do we call them depending on the region. According to WMO (World Meteorological Organization): [Ref Tropical cyclone (wmo.int)] A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm that begins over tropical oceans, and they can vary in speed, size, and intensity. Tropical cyclones are the
What’s Foehn effect 焚風效應?
Ref Foehn effect – Met Office The foehn effect describes the change from wet and cold conditions one side of a mountain, to warmer and drier conditions on the other (leeward) side. Note: Latent heating (LH) arises predominantly from the release of heat associated with the condensation of water vapor into cloud droplets in clouds
What’s Lee side?
Ref Windward and leeward – Wikipedia The term “windward” has roots in both Low German and Old English. The word “lee“, which means a place without wind. Windward is upwind from the point of reference, i.e., towards the direction from which the wind is coming; Leeward is downwind from the point of reference, i.e., along the direction towards
How the air pressure work in our environment?
By change, I stumble upon a series of televsion show, which use animation to explain Meteorology in a easy way. Great!
Cloud Base v.s Cloud Ceiling
A cloud base refers to the lowest visible part of the clouds over the station. A cloud ceiling refers to the distance between the ground or water and the base of the lowest layer of clouds, which must form a cloud cover that blankets more than half of the sky below 20,000 feet. Read More –
What’s Sea Breeze and Land Breeze?
NWS JetStream – The Sea Breeze (weather.gov) Sea breeze and Land breeze are kind of convective current Day time 地球吸熱是greenhouse effect Night time 地球放熱是radiation cooling The sea breeze circulation is composed of two opposing flows; one at the surface (called the sea breeze) and one aloft (which is a return flow). These two
Sunrise, Sunset and Rainbow, Northern lights (aurora borealis)
Why sunsets organge? Ans: Scattering effect! How are rainbows formed? – Met Office How Are Rainbows Formed? | Royal Meteorological Society (rmets.org) Northern lights – Met Office
Aircraft Tyre : basic things you need to know!
How to change aircraft tyres? What type of gas are used for modern jetliners? Why aircraft’s tyres have no groove, but have straight profiles?
What’s Microbust?
Read more – Turbulence v.s Wind Shear – Tommy’s Diaries (tommykwan.com)
