Image 3 is the infrared satellite animation for the 24-hour period from 1315Z 16
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Question
Image 3 is the infrared satellite animation for the 24-hour period from 1315Z 16 APR 2017 to 1215Z 17 APR 2017. The Image 1 surface map time and the Image 2 radar animation occur midway through the satellite loop. Watch the animation for several cycles.
12. Bright white shadings on infrared images indicate cloud tops that have relatively ________ temperatures.
[ ] warm [ ] cold
13. These cloud-top temperatures would therefore likely be located at relatively ________ altitudes in the troposphere.
[ ] high [ ] low
14. The rate at which the shadings change over the Midland area would indicate that, the lower tropospheric air ________ rising rapidly across this region.
[ ] was [ ] was not
CWS 11A - 4 The formation of thunderstorm cells requires sufficient moisture at low levels, a lifting mechanism (an advancing front, convergence near a Low center, or orographic lifting) to “trigger” their formation, and supportive upper atmospheric conditions to develop.
15. The surface map, radar and satellite animations therefore ________ show all of these favorable conditions which contributed to thunderstorm development.
Explanation / Answer
12.warm( beacuse warn air reaches the top of the atmosphere )
13.high( as temperature increases air tends to rise above the cold air)
14 was(because of change in temperature of air)
15 did( satellite images have been helpful from the past four decades for this study)