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The study of how the earth's atmosphere works, including weather forecasting. Use this tag for questions about the earth's weather. When asking questions specifically about the atmosphere, also include the [atmosphere] tag.

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Can we see the circulation cells in wind maps?

Yes, the wind cells are just a toy model, where we can suppose that the homogenity of the Earth and other things. But there are other things and Earth isn't same on the all points, so the instantaneou …
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Why are mornings cooler than nights?

The Earth is always radiating heat to the space. But in the day the Sun delivers some heat. The net heat flux is then defined as the sum of those two factors. If the energy delivered by the Sun is big …
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Is it possible to detect Coriolis effect using a Wind Rose?

Yes, your figure is correct: in the mid-latitudes we have cyclones and anticyclones. They can't exist on equator because the Coriolis force there is too small to keep them stable. But the cyclones or …
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How to calculate rate of change of temperature with pressure in Earth's troposhere?

Wow, @John came with a simple answer. Our goal is to find $$\frac{dT}{dP}=\frac{dT}{dz}\cdot\frac{dz}{dP}$$ By the equation for pressure lapse: $$P=P_0\cdot e^{-\frac{z}{H}}$$ where $H=8 km=8000 m$ (s …
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