Study everything on this study guide.  If you really understand everything on this study guide, you have a very good chance of doing well on the exam. The exam with have one section of short answer questions, definitions, and equations.  The rest of the exam will be questions that require somewhat longer answers and one problem that requires a skew-T.
 

1. relationship between synoptic and dynamic meteorology
2. baroclinic instability -- simple explanation
3. aerosols: definition and types
4. aerosol sizes and size distributions: description and graph
5. sources and sinks for aerosols
6. aerosol number concentration, surface area and volume: how they are determined
7. aerosol size spectrum
8. homogeneous nucleation: concept
9. heterogeneous nucleation: concept
10. Koehler Theory: How the Kelvin Effect and the Raoult Effect work to make a cloud droplet
11. cloud growth by vapor deposition
12. cloud growth by collision-coalescence
13. cloud droplet growth and precipitation development in a warm cloud: the big picture and the importance of each step
14. cloud drop growth and precipitation development in a cold cloud: the big picture and the importance of each step
15. cloud types and their characteristics
16. cloud formation processes -- adiabatic cooling clouds , advection clouds, radiational cooling clouds, mixing clouds -- physical explanations
17. thunderstorms -- necessary conditions, types
18. hurricanes -- necessary conditions -- formation process