Hurricane Katrina was classified as a Category 5 hurricane, but as it moved towards the Louisiana coast, its rainbands near the center of the storm converged towards the eye, the storm weakened, and it made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane. This weakening was primarily due to the phenomenon called ____
A) trade-wind inversion
B) rainband disintegration
C) eye replacement
D) eyewall replacement
D
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A) Bengali B) Hindi C) Gujarati D) Persian E) Dravidian
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a. nitrogen dioxide b. hydrogen peroxide c. ferrous oxide d. carbon dioxide e. hydrogen sulfide
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A) The ebb current between the higher high water tide and the lower low water tide B) The ebb current between the lower high water tide and the higher low water tide C) The few minutes during the highest high slack water D) The flood current between the higher low water tide and the higher low water tide E) The flood current between the lower low water tide and the lower low water tide