{"id":195,"date":"2023-07-27T07:04:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/?page_id=195"},"modified":"2023-07-28T01:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T06:03:41","slug":"background-and-terms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/21st-century-weather-science\/background-and-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Background and Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need to define and discuss a few technical terms and concepts. I expect a struggle getting my work accepted by mainstream meteorology but that doesn&#8217;t mean I hold their work in low regard. The selection of some terms has been problematic for me developing this work.<\/p>\n<p>The term trough is one example. As an old farm boy (and very proud of it) a trough was a place where water and\/or water was placed to feed\/water the pigs. I expected that a trough was some sort of depression in the atmosphere that somehow contained a weather characteristic vertically. Finally, I found a trough was an isobar was a mapping feature that traveled south and back north in a smooth curve.<\/p>\n<p>I though a wall cloud was a vertical cloud like the wall, ceiling and floor features of a room. I&#8217;m still not sure if a wall cloud is actually the flat bottom (ceiling) cloud from which a barrel cloud descends or the barrel cloud itself. So I refer to them as ceiling clouds and barrel clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Please point out instances when I use what I consider descriptive language without relating my term(s) with traditional weather terms. I don&#8217;t know the history of the term name selection and I&#8217;ve only had the one Penn course on undergraduate weather.<\/p>\n<p>Humidity and density &#8211; the relative weight of humid and dry air<\/p>\n<p>Dew point and cloud level &#8211; the conversion of humidity to visual moisture<\/p>\n<p>Humidity and wind &#8211; the effects of gravity and centripetal force on buoyant air<\/p>\n<p>Next <a href=\"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/21st-century-weather-science\/background-and-terms\/humidity-and-density\/\">Humidity and Density<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Return to <a href=\"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/21st-century-weather-science\/background-and-terms\/\">Background and Terms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to define and discuss a few technical terms and concepts. I expect a struggle getting my work accepted by mainstream meteorology but that doesn&#8217;t mean I hold their work in low regard. The selection of some terms has been problematic for me developing this work. The term trough is one example. As an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/21st-century-weather-science\/background-and-terms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Background and Terms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":93,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/195\/revisions\/235"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hunt4answers.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}