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Questions for WIND1

Answer the following questions

1. What prevents air from flowing directly from a high to a low pressure
2. Where would you expect to find the strongest wind on the ground in temperate latitudes?
3. If flying in the Alps with a Foehn effect from the south
4. In a high pressure systems
5. A METAR for Paris gave the surface wind at 260°/20. Wind at 2000ft is most likely to be
6. Standing in the Northern Hemisphere, north of a polar frontal depression travelling west to east, the wind will
7. Where are easterly and westerly jets found?
8. What is the relationship between the 2000 ft wind and the surface wind in the Northern Hemisphere
9. What causes the Geostrophic wind to be stronger than the gradient wind around a low?
10. Wind at altitude is usually given as …….. in ……..
11. For the same pressure gradient at 50°N, 60°N and 40°N, the geostrophic wind speed is?
12. What is the relationship between the 5000 ft wind and the surface wind in the southern hemisphere
13. In central Europe, where are the greatest wind speeds?
14. At a coastal airfield, with the runway parallel to the coastline. You are downwind over the sea with the runway to your right. On a warm summer afternoon, what would you expect the wind to be on finals?
15. The wind in the Northern Hemisphere at the surface and above the friction layer at 2000 ft would be?
16. Flying from an area of low pressure in the Southern Hemisphere at low altitudes, where is the wind coming from?
17. Where would an anemometer be placed?
18. What is the difference between Gradient and Geostrophic winds?
19. What is a land breeze
20. The Geostrophic Wind blows at your flight level in Northern Hemisphere the true altitude and indicated altitude remain constant, is the crosswind
21. When heading South in the Southern Hemisphere you experience Starboard drift
22. Which of the following is an example of a Foehn wind?
23. What causes wind?
24. What is the Bora?
25. What is the effect of a mountain valley wind?
26. The gradient wind is more than geostrophic wind around an anticyclone because the
27. A large pressure gradient is shown by
28. ATC will only report wind as gusting if
29. 90km/hr wind in kts is
30. Comparing the surface wind to the 3000ft wind
31. An aircraft is flying East to West in the Northern Hemisphere. What is happening to his altitude?
32. With all other things being equal with a high and a low having constantly spaced circular isobars. Where is the wind the fastest?
33. Foehn winds are
34. If you fly with left drift in the Northern Hemisphere, what is happening to surface pressure?
35. Wind is caused by?