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1. Rise in temperature with height is

2. What causes wind?

3. Relative humidity depends on

4. Inversion in the atmosphere indicates

5.

Trade winds are most prominent or strongest

6. The movement of wind in relation to a cyclone is

7. At the top of orographic waves, in mountainous regions, the cloud most likely to be encountered is

8. A part of the sinking air over the subtropical high flows towards the equator, turning west (in the northern hemisphere) due to the Coriolis force. This surface air is called

9. Hot bodies (like sun) radiate

10. Where is a squall line to be expected?

11. Lines of constant wind speed drawn on weather charts are called

12. Norwesters occur during

13. Which constant pressure altitude chart is standard for a 18289 FT pressure level (FL 180) ?

14. Wind speed in a tropical severe cyclone is:

15. The occurrence of large deserts near 30N and 30S are due to large scale

16. In which of these cloud types can icing be virtually ruled out?

17. Generally the severest activity of a, heat type, TS is for

18. Norwesters normally occur during

19. Advection fog occurs due to ........ air moving over ............ surface over

20. The hailstones occur from

21. CS in Indian region are less intense because

22. Low level wind shear is likely to be greatest

23. An aerodrome is at the mean sea level. Its QNH is 1014.0 hPa. Its QFF will be

24. Average life of a tropical cyclone in India is

25.

Which of the following conditions is most likely to lead to the formation of advection fog ?

26. Rime is formed by freezing of ____ supercooled water droplets on airframe when air is flying through clouds

27. Flying at right angles to a jet stream with falling pressure you will experience

28. For mountain waves to form the wind speed for small mountains should be atleast

29. The validity of Landing Forecast (TREND) is

30. The total energy radiated by a black body is proportional to its temperature(T)

31. Flying from Low to High an altimeter would read

32. Rainfall in the tropics is more in the

33. An aircraft flying in Summer season from Delhi to Kolkata at 10 km will experience

34. Fog occurs in Cold Front