Pressure Systems

Question 1

What is the ITCZ?

Answer 1

Bands of low pressure.

Question 2

What type of pressure happens at a convergence?

Answer 2

Low pressure.

Question 3

What pressure do we get at divergence?

Answer 3

High pressure.

Question 4

What pressure is at the equator?

Answer 4

Low.

Question 5

If there is high pressure above the UK in january, what woukd it be called?

Answer 5

Cold core high.

Question 6

Low pressure circulates blank in the southern hemisphere.

Answer 6

Clockwise.

Question 7

Low pressure circulates blank in the northern hemisphere.

Answer 7

Anticlockwise.

Question 8

What is caused in a depression at high levels?

Answer 8

High level divergence.

Question 9

A typical front (warm and cold front)
occur when a polar blank pushes
polar (cold) and blank (warm) air into each other.

Answer 9

Depressions tropical

Question 10

What is a secondary depression?

Answer 10

Low pressure that rotates around a main depression.

Question 11

What is an isobaric trough?

Answer 11

Trough that extends into other systems.

Question 12

What is a trough line?

Answer 12

Strong band of low pressure.

Question 13

What type of core low is seen in a tropical depression?

Answer 13

Warm core low.

Question 14

Where can thermal lows occur?

Answer 14

Over warm seas or lakes.

Question 15

What does orographic mean?

Answer 15

Air moving around terrain

Question 16

What happens to pressure on an orographic windward side?

Answer 16

High.

Question 17

What happens to pressure on an orographic windward side?

Answer 17

High.

Question 18

What happens to pressure on an orographic lee side?

Answer 18

Low.

Question 19

Anticyclones are formed due to high level blank.

Answer 19

Convergence.

Question 20

Blank blank occurs in the subsiding air, which generally results in skies becoming cloud free.

Answer 20

Adiabatic warming.

Question 21

In a cold cyclone the pressures bulge. What way do they bulge at lower levels?

Answer 21

Up.

Question 22

In a cold cyclone the pressures bulge. What way do they bulge at higher levels?

Answer 22

Down.

Question 23

What type of anticyclone sees pressure levels bulge up?

Answer 23

Warm.

Question 24

What is a blocking anticyclone?

Answer 24

Intense high pressure.

Question 25

What does a blocking anticyclone result in?

Answer 25

Consistent weather.

Question 26

What occurs between polar front depressions?

Answer 26

Cold temporary antic cyclones.

Question 27

What weather does a cold temporary anticyclone bring?

Answer 27

Clear skies or light winds.

Question 28

What does a col bring in the winter?

Answer 28

Fog

Question 29

What is the middle air cell?

Answer 29

Ferrel.

Question 30

Given the identical pressure gradient and density at latitudes 60°S, 50°S, and 40°S, determine where, if any, the geostrophic wind speed is highest…

Answer 30

40

Question 31

Given the identical pressure gradient and density at latitudes 60°S, 50°S, and 40°S, determine where, if any, the geostrophic wind speed is highest…

Answer 31

40

Question 32

Given the identical pressure gradient and density at latitudes 60°S, 50°S, and 40°S, determine where, if any, the geostrophic wind speed is highest…

Answer 32

40

Question 33

What does a frictional force together with cyclonic curvature of the isobars cause?

Answer 33

Convergence

Question 34

A layer in which the temperature decreases with 1°C per 100 m increasing altitude is neutral for what?

Answer 34

Dry air.

Question 35

How to change the letters on microburst.

Answer 35

MBST.