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Chapter 15
Question | Answer |
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The zone of intense thunderstorms around the center of a hurricane | eyewall |
A storm of tropical origin that forms over north Atlantic and eastern north Pacific Ocean | hurricane |
This shows wind-flow patterns on a map | streamlines |
The center of a hurricane | eye |
What a hurricane is called in India and Australia | cyclone |
Over the western North Pacific Ocean a storm of tropical origin whose high winds and flooding cause a great deal of destruction | typhoon |
The stage of hurricane development just before the tropical storm stage | tropical depression |
Weak trough of low pressure in the tropics along which hurricanes occasionally form | easterly wave |
This storm has a low pressure core and weather fronts | midlatitude cyclone |
The stage of hurricane development just before it becomes a full blown hurricane | tropical storm |
Most of the destruction caused by a hurricane is usually due to | flooding |
An unusual rise in the ocean level along a shore that is due mainly to the winds of a hurricane | storm surge |
The ______ scale relates hurricane winds to possible damage hurricanes can cause | saffir simpson |
When a hurricane poses a threat to an area, a _ __ is issues by the national hurricane center several days before the storms arrives | hurricane watch |
This is the general term for all hurricane type storms | tropical cyclone |
Which below will not cause a hurricane to dissipate | when the depth of warm water ahead of the advancing hurricane is relatively deep |
The primary source of energy for a hurricane is the | release of latent heat of condensation and warm water |
An area of North America that would most likely experience thunderstorms hurricanes and tornadoes during the course of a year is the | region around the gulf of mexico |
As a hurricane's eye passes directly overhead you would not expect to observe | high winds |
An atmospheric condition that is not conductive to the formation of hurricanes is | strong upper level winds |
Scientists have tried to modify hurricanes by | seeding the hurricanes with silver iodide |
A tropical easterly wave | has showers and thunderstorms on its eastern side |
Hurricanes do not form | along the equator |
The main difference between a hurricane and a typhoon is | they form over different regions of the tropical ocean |
A hurricane moving northward off the coast of Virginia is producing strong northerly winds parallel to the coast. Under these conditions you would expect the net transport of water just offshore to be directed toward the | west |
One would most likely expect a hurricane hunter to be | in an aircraft flying into a storm |
Hurricanes may contain tornadoes | T |
The vertical structure of a hurricane shows an upper level outflow of air and a surface inflow of air | T |
A strong trade wind inversion can inhibit the formation of intense thunderstorms and hurricanes | T |
Tropical cyclones that form over the eastern North Pacific Ocean adjacent to the west coast of Mexico re called hurricanes | T |
Hurricanes only form over water | T |
In the center of a hurricane the surface air pressure is much higher than the air pressure around the periphery of the eye | F |
Squall lines do not form in the tropics | F |
In the heat engine odel energy for a developing hurricane is taken in at the surface converted to kinetic energy and lost at the cloud tops through radiational cooling | T |
A hurricane moving north over the pacific ocean adjacent to the east coast of north america will normally survive as a hurricane for a longer time than one moving north over the Atlantic ocean adjacent to the east coast of north america | F |
Hurricanes do not usually form over the south atlantic ocean adjacent to south america because of the relatively cold water found there and the unfavorable position of the itcz | T |
Hurricanes in the northern hemisphere are similar to middle latitude cyclones in that both generally move from west to east and have weather fronts | F |
The winds in a tropical system known as a tropical storm are greater than the winds in a hurricane. | F |
In the eye of a hurricane several kilometers above the surface the air is sinking | T |
Hurricanes over the North atlantic ocean tend to form from june through november | T |
Another name for a tropicical wave is an easterly wave | T |
A super typhoon generally has winds greater than a category 5 hurricane | F |
The formation of a new eye wall farther away from the original eyewall is called eye wall replacement | T |
A dropsonde is similar to a radiosonde except that a dropsonde is dropped from an aircraft into a storm | T |
The use of ensemble forecasting has helped to raise the level of skill in predicting hurricane paths | T |