Cloud Base & Freezing Level from a Few Readings
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In this lesson
You estimate the base of convective clouds from the dew-point spread, the freezing level from the valley temperature, count the days with the summit likely in cloud and let a formula name the day with the lowest base.
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Lessons in this course
- Temperature with Altitude: Lapse Rates and a Summit Estimate Locked
- Humidity & Dew Point: The Magnus Formula and the Spread Locked
- Cloud Base & Freezing Level from a Few Readings Locked
- Pressure & Altitude: The Barometric Formula and Altimeter Drift Locked
- Pressure Tendency: 3-Hour Changes and Trend Classes Locked
- Wind: Unit Conversions, a Simple Wind Scale & Wind Chill Locked
- Precipitation & Snow: Totals, Water Equivalent & Snowline Locked
- Capstone: Trip Weather Log, Planning Flags & a Wind Chart Locked