what are radiation cooling? advection cooling?orographic and frontal lift?and convective or adiabatic cooling?

Answer 1

Gabriela - Radiational cooling is the result of the unrestricted loss of longwave infrared radiation at night. This will occur when there are no clouds to absorb and re-radiated this radiation back down to the ground. Advection cooling can occur any time of the day or night. It is caused by the horizontal movement of relatively cooler air into a region. Cold fronts result in advection cooling. Orographic lift results when air is lifted by the terrain, such as hills or mountains. Frontal lift results when air is lifted up and over a frontal surface, such as a cold front replacing warm air out ahead of it as it lifts it up and over the frontal boundary. Convective heating results when the earth's surface is unevenly warmed by the Sun causing vertical currents in the lower atmosphere called convective currents. Adiabatic cooling is a bit more complicated. It is a process in which no heat is added to or subtracted from a parcel of air. Under those conditions the First Law of Thermodynamics shows that temperature is a function only of pressure. Air that is lifted in the atmosphere where there is no mixing with ambient air i.e. no heat is lost or gained will decrease in temperature according to this thermodynamic relationship. This is called the adiabatic lapse rate.

Answer 2

Advection Cooling

Answer 3

Might I suggest that you pick up any good text on meteorology and read it? The Wonders of the Weather by Bob Crowder, 2nd Edition, AGPS 2000 would be a good start. You could try checking your list on Wikipedia, it isn't difficult.