Senior Met Quiz
Senior Met Quiz1. What is measured with a whirling psychrometer?
2. What is measured in Dobson Units?
3. What is albedo?
4. What is an occlusion?
5. Which is found at higher altitudes - cumulus or cirrus cloud?
6. Would you expect the annual range of temperature to be less at the
coast or in mid continents? Why?
7. Which cools slower - rising dry air or rising saturated air?
8. Which direction do winds blow around areas of low pressure?
9. What does the occurrence of hoar frost prove about the dew point
temperature?
10. Would you expect cumulo-nimbus clouds to develop along warm or
cold fronts?
1 Relative Humidity; 2 Ozone levels; 3 Reflectiveness of a
surface;
4 Where warm and cold fronts have combined; 5 Cirrus;
6 At the coast because the sea is slow to heat/cool and so moderates
temperatures;
7 Saturated air because of the release of a latent heat;
8 Anti-clockwise; 9 That it was below freezing point; 10 Cold
Fronts.
Senior Met Quiz 2
1 What is
a) a katabatic wind?
b) a millibar?
c) a radiosonde?
d) the dry adiabatic lapse rate?
2 Would you expect winds to blow on or off shore at a coastal
location at mid-day on a hot summers day? Why?
3 What is the likely air temperature on top of a mountain of 1,000
metres if the temperature at sea level is 15°c?
4 What happens to relative humidity % as air cools?
5 Would you expect winds to blow clockwise or anti-clockwise around a
low pressure region in the southern hemisphere?
Answers
1 a) down valley wind, often at night b) unit of pressure = one
thousandth of a bar
c) balloon-borne weather instrument
d) rate at which dry air cools with altitude (1°c per 100m)
2 Onshore from cool/higher pressure over sea to warm/lower pressure
region over land.
3 5 °c
4 Relative humidity % will increase.
5 Anti-clockwise
Junior Met Quiz
1. Would you associate cloudy, wet & windy weather with
conditions of high or low pressure?
2. What is an arid climate?
3. Which is hotter 20°centigrade or 50°fahrenheit?
4. What is measured in millibars?
5. What is depicted by a comma on a weather map?
1 Low pressure; 2 Dry eg deserts ; 3 20°c; 4 Atmospheric
Pressure; 5 Drizzle