Exam 7: Circulation of the Atmosphere

What option below best characterizes the rainfall distribution at a station located south of the Sahara desert at about 20 degrees N latitude?

Name the four major pressure zones that occur in each hemisphere.

The polar jet stream usually slows down in winter.

The equatorial currents in the ocean are the principle driving force for the other ocean currents.

Sea breezes are more likely at night, while land breezes are more likely during the day.

Summertime wildfires in California are fanned by:

Most of the earth's deserts are located in the:

Cold water rising from deep in the ocean to replace warmer water at the surface is called____________ .

El Niño has no measurable impacts on weather in the United States.

What changes have increased the risk associated with the Santa Ana winds in southern California?

The Southern Oscillation refers to a change in surface pressure over the south Atlantic Ocean.

Although the idealized version of Earth features continuous pressure belts that continue zonally around the planet, the real Earth has broken- up pressure cells that vary seasonally. What explains this?

Describe the surface wind direction and the winds aloft direction for the northern hemisphere on a non- rotating Earth. Assume a smooth, uniform Earth.

Name the two latitude zones where precipitation is most abundant.

The subpolar low (polar front) is:

The large rainfall totals associated with the Indian monsoon occur when:

Synoptic scale circulations are of what size, approximately?

G. Hadley's ideas about atmospheric circulations were concerned with the:

Land- sea breezes and _____ are mesoscale winds.

What option below best characterizes the rainfall distribution at a station, such as New York City, located at about 40 degrees N latitude?