Check Your Understanding (CYU)


Storms Day 2 - CYU_1

Caution: For some CYU questions, more than one of the listed answer options might be correct. For other CYU questions, none of the listed answer options might be correct.  We do this to encourage you to think about the topic. 
Feel free to debate the answers with your peers (i.e., classmates) on the Canvas Discussion board, which is monitored by the TAs.

Question:

Which statement is TRUE?


Answer Options:

   (A)    dBZ is a disaster scale indicating the speed of damaging winds in thunderstorms.

   (B)    Weather satellites give forecasts of future thunderstorm locations.

   (C)    Weather radar can see the cumulus stage of thunderstorm cells.

   (D)    Visible images from weather satellite allow us to see inside the cloud to locate the most violent part of the thunderstorm.

   (E)    Weather radar and satellite are remote sensors.



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Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Dept.
Univ. of British Columbia