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PHSC 210 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Micrometeorology - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-studies atmospheric features and phenomena lasting
minutes and extending up to a kilometer in size



Eddies - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-a swirling mass that causes air to mix



Entrainment - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-mixing of an air current with surrounding environment air; In a
cloud, this process mixes in dry air and causes cloud to dissipate and air to cool



Global Circulation Patterns are mainly influenced by - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-solar heating and
distribution of land masses



Hadley Cell - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-G.C.P. between rising warm air of the equator and sinking cold air
of Ferrel cell (between equator and 30 degrees latitude); has easterly surface winds



Polar Cell - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-G.C.P. between Ferrel Cell and Pole air; operates between 60-90
latitude; easterly surface winds



Ferrel Cell - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-G.C.P. between Polar Cell and Hadley Cell.

Operates between 30-60 latitude

has westerly surface winds



ITCZ - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone.

Contains doldrums



Trade Winds - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Easterly winds between sub tropical highs and equator



Westerlies - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-west to east motion of atmosphere in mid latitudes

PHSC 210 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

, Polar Front - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Interface between Polar and Ferrel Cells where cold polar
easterlies meet warm westerly air brought poleward from subtropics; provides favorable location for
cyclone development



Jet Stream - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Near tropopause, wind along polar front with high speeds



Synoptic Meteorology - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-studies atmospheric features and phenomena lasting
days and extending to hundreds of kilometers in size



(includes motion and intensification of low pressure systems and fronts)



Pacific and Bermuda Highs - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Two persistent sub tropical high pressure regions



Aleutian and Icelandic Low - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-In winter, combined with low along polar front



Siberian High - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-a high pressure region that forms over central Asia during
winter. Influence of this feature extends West and causes monsoon dry season in India and SE Asia



Monsoon - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Wind pattern that changes direction over the year leading to a dry
season



El Nino - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-quasi-periodic (2-7 years) shift of warm water in equatorial Pacific



El Nino effects are most pronounced where and when? - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Off the coast waters
of Peru during Christmas



Normal Conditions (w/o El Nino) - VERIFIED ANSWER✔✔-Pacific Ocean has a pool of warm water near
Australia and cooler pool off of Peru. The warm air provides rain to Australia and SE Asia and cool air
keeps Peru dry. Equatorial Easterlies are strong because of surface pressure near Australia and lower
in Peru.




PHSC 210 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

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