Assignment:
Part 1
How much for answers these questions, please? and Can you answer all these questions for today?
1- Draw a large circle. Now, place the major surface pressure and wind belts of the world at their appropriate latitudes?
2- Explain how and why the average surface pressure features shift from summer to winter?
3- Why is it impossible on the earth for a Hadley cell to extend from the pole to the equator?
4- Most of the United States is in what wind belt?
5- Why is the polar front jet stream stronger in winter than in summer?
6- Explain the relationship between the general circulation of air and the circulation of Ocean currents?
Part 2
1- Describe the various scales of motion, and give an example of each?
2- What causes wind gusts?
3- How does mechanical turbulence differ from thermal turbulence?
4- A friend has just returned from a trans - Atlantic jet aircraft flight and reported that the plan dropped about 1000 m when it entered an" air pocket." Explain to your friend what apparently happened to case this drop?
5- What are the necessary conditions for the development of large wind waves?
6- How can a coastal area have heavy waves on a clear, nonstormy day?
7- Using a diagram, explain how a thermal circulation develops?
8- Which wind will most likely produce clouds: a valley breeze or a mountain breeze? why?
9- Explain why chinook winds are warm and dry?
10- What atmospheric conditions contribute to the development of a strong Santa Ana wind warm?
11- How do strong katabatic winds form?
12- Discuss the factors that contribute to the formation of the summer monsoon and the winter monsoon in India?
13- An upper wind direction is reported as 315 o. From what compass direction is the wind blowing?
14- If you are standing directly south of a smoke stack and the wind from the stack is blowing over your head, what would be the wind direction?