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Questions for WIND1

Answer the following questions

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