WX 201 Exam 3 with correct Answers Graded
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The land/sea breeze, lake, breeze, and mountain/valley breeze are examples of
thermal circulations
Longwaves in the middle and upper troposphere usually have lengths on the order of
thousands of kilometers
in the Northern Hemisphere, air found to the north of the polar front is______, while air further south
is____
cold; warm
the air mass with the highest actual water vapor content is
mT
because of friction, the surface winds move ______ winds aloft with the same pressure gradiant
more slowly than
What type of air mass would be responsible for hot, muggy summer weather in the eaastern half of
the United States
mT
If the flow of air into a surface low pressure area is greater than the divergence of air aloft, the
surface pressure in the center of the low will
increase
The entrance region of a jetstreak is found______ and the exit is found______`
upwind; downwind
When a sea breeze moving east meets a sea breeze moving west, they form a
sea breeze convergence zone
Which statement describes the subtropical jetstream
it generally blows west to east
The contour lines on a 500mb chart are lines of
pressure
the amount of pressure change that occurs over a given horizontal distance is called the
pressure gradient
The worlds deserts are found at the 30 degree latitude because
of the sinking air of the subtropical highs
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The land/sea breeze, lake, breeze, and mountain/valley breeze are examples of
thermal circulations
Longwaves in the middle and upper troposphere usually have lengths on the order of
thousands of kilometers
in the Northern Hemisphere, air found to the north of the polar front is______, while air further south
is____
cold; warm
the air mass with the highest actual water vapor content is
mT
because of friction, the surface winds move ______ winds aloft with the same pressure gradiant
more slowly than
What type of air mass would be responsible for hot, muggy summer weather in the eaastern half of
the United States
mT
If the flow of air into a surface low pressure area is greater than the divergence of air aloft, the
surface pressure in the center of the low will
increase
The entrance region of a jetstreak is found______ and the exit is found______`
upwind; downwind
When a sea breeze moving east meets a sea breeze moving west, they form a
sea breeze convergence zone
Which statement describes the subtropical jetstream
it generally blows west to east
The contour lines on a 500mb chart are lines of
pressure
the amount of pressure change that occurs over a given horizontal distance is called the
pressure gradient
The worlds deserts are found at the 30 degree latitude because
of the sinking air of the subtropical highs
