Multiple Choice
Divergence (or convergence) is a difficult task to measure with any degree of accuracy using upper-level wind information. Therefore, meteorologists must look for ____, something that can be measured and, at the same time, can be related to regions of diverging (and converging) air.
A) curvature
B) baroclinicity
C) cold advection
D) warm advection
E) vorticity
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