Weather and Climate

1. Weather

1.1. Temperature

1.1.1. Factors

1.1.1.1. Latitude

1.1.1.2. Altitude

1.1.1.3. Distance from the sea

1.1.1.4. Cloud cover

1.2. Relative Humidity

1.2.1. Amount of water vapour in the air/Maximum amount of water vapour the air can hold

1.3. Clouds

1.3.1. Water vapour

1.3.1.1. Cools to dew point temperature becoming clouds

1.4. Rainfall

1.4.1. Convection rain

1.4.2. Relief rain

1.4.2.1. Warm, moist air forced to rise over landforms

1.4.2.2. Forced to cool, reaches dew point

1.4.2.3. Form clouds

1.4.2.4. Precipitation

1.5. Precipitation

1.5.1. Water in any state that falls from atmosphere to the ground

2. Climate

2.1. Pressure and winds

2.1.1. Air pressure

2.1.1.1. Force exerted on a unit area of earth’s surface by weight of a column of air

2.1.2. Wind

2.1.2.1. Movement of air from high pressure to low pressure

2.1.2.2. Wind systems

2.1.2.2.1. Land breeze

2.1.2.2.2. Sea breeze

2.1.3. Monsoon winds

2.1.3.1. Regional wind patterns that reverse direction seasonally

2.1.3.2. Affected by Coriolis effect

2.1.3.2.1. Changes the course of moving objects on earth

2.1.3.3. Southwest monsoon

2.1.3.4. Northeast monsoon