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 else that can be measured and, at the same time, can be related to regions of diverging (and converging) air. That something is called?
a. ?curvature.
b. ?baroclinicity.
c. ?cold advection.
d. ?warm advection.
e. ?vorticity.
61. 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 else that can be measured and, at the same time, can be related to regions of diverging (and converging) air. That something is called?
a. ?curvature.
b. ?baroclinicity.
c. ?cold advection.
d. ?warm advection.
e. ?vorticity.
ANSWER: e
REFERENCES: Vorticity, Divergence, and Developing Mid-Latitude Cyclones
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: METT.AHRE.16.12.9 - Define the terms vorticity, planetary vorticity, relative vorticity, and absolute vorticity.
OTHER: Bloom's: Remember
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