Fronts And Frontal Depressions

Question 1

Cyclqgenesis is the name used to describe the development of a low/high.

Answer 1

Low

Question 2

Where would you find the northern hemisphere polar front in the summer?

Answer 2

Canada to scotland

Question 3

Where would you find the northern hemisphere polar front in the winter?

Answer 3

Florida to cornwall

Question 4

What is frontolysis?

Answer 4

Decay of a front

Question 5

What is frontogenesis?

Answer 5

Formation of a front

Question 6

The slope of a warm front boundary is shallow at 1:XXX slope

Answer 6

150

Question 7

At what front in the winter sees freezing rain? Warm / cold

Answer 7

Warm front.

Question 8

The slope of a cold front boundary is shallow at 1:XX slope

Answer 8

50

Question 9

Which travels faster cold/warm front?

Answer 9

Cold

Question 10

What type of weather do you get when you get an occluded front?

Answer 10

Both cold and warm fronts

Question 11

What type of occlusion is more common in the summer.

Answer 11

Cold occlusion.

Question 12

Blank occlusion is the continuation of a warm front.

Answer 12

Warm.

Question 13

What type of front lasts several days?

Answer 13

Stationary front.

Question 14

Which of the following statements is correct about a warm occlusion in Western Europe? A warm occlusion is a combination of a warm and cold front. At the surface, it resembles a warm front with embedded CBs. The precipitation falls ahead/behind of the surface position of the front.

Answer 14

Ahead

Question 15

For a tropical storm, it needs the Coriolis effect which requires X-X degrees

Answer 15

5-30

Question 16

The risk of fog is less/more, ahead of and behind the warm front than ahead of and behind the cold front.

Answer 16

More

Question 17

At the cold front, BKN to OVC layers may occur with CU and CB. However, if the air is stable/unstable cold fronts can also produce nimbostratus clouds (and stratocumulus, and stratus clouds.)

Answer 17

Stable

Question 18

The clouds behind a cold front is typically:

Answer 18

Cumulus

Question 19

U

Question 20

U

Question 21

In what front would you get poor visibility in mist and drizzle

Answer 21

Warm.

Question 22

Where does the doldrums occur?

Answer 22

Equator

Question 23

What will Polar maritime air flowing over warm land in the summer cause?

Answer 23

Showers and TCU

Question 24

What weather can be expected when a polar front approaches a mountain range in south europe?

Answer 24

CB

Question 25

Blank blank air originates from the Polar ice caps.

Answer 25

Arctic maritime

Question 26

Tropical storms in the southern ocean First to the West or South-west, then turning blank, it is hard to predict the track exactly.

Answer 26

South

Question 27

True or false : A blocking anticyclone is a warm high pressure.

Answer 27

True