Tropical Cyclones

Question 1

Adiabatic Heating

Answer 1

when air descends and compresses, resulting in very little precipitation.

Question 2

Adiabatic lapse rate

Answer 2

rate at which temp of air parcel changes in response to compress/expansion associated with elevation change, under assumption that process is adiabatic, i.e., no heat exchange occurs between the given air parcel and its surroundings.

Question 3

Coriolis force

Answer 3

A force due to rotation of earth results in deflection of winds+ocean currents. Deflection right in NH left in SH

Question 4

Dissipate

Answer 4

Is to break up or disappear or weakening

Question 5

Eye

Answer 5

calm area at centre of tropical cyclone

Question 6

Eyewall

Answer 6

walls of cumulonimbus cloud that surround eye of tropical cyclone.

Question 7

Latent heat

Answer 7

heat/ener that absorbed/released during phase change of substance. Either G-L or L-S

Question 8

Make landfall

Answer 8

term to describe arrival of eye of a tropical cyclone over coast.

Question 9

Storm surge

Answer 9

abnormal rise of water along coast associated with LP system as a tropical cyclone.

Question 10

Tropical Cyclone

Answer 10

A powerful, rotating storm system, around a low-pressure cell which develops over a warm ocean between the tropics, the eye moves over land.

Question 11

Tropical cyclone landfall

Answer 11

A tropical cyclone is classified as making a landfall when centre of storm moves across coast, in strong tropical cyclones.

Question 12

Vortex

Answer 12

A mass of spinning air that attracts more air to its centre.