Engineering Sciences
GATE XE format:mcq PYQs
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Question 1
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The most abundant gas in the atmosphere among inert gases is
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The pair of variables that always exhibit monotonic decrease with height in the atmosphere is
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Correct order of the maximum vertical extent of atmospheric circulation cells is
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Analysis of an atmospheric variable shows prominent modes at 5, 40 and 1460 days. These modes correspond respectively to
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Atmospheric vertical profile of temperature is measured by radiosonde. Equivalent instruments for measuring ocean temperature profile among the following are:
(P) drifting buoy (Q) ARGO float (R) current mooring (S) XBT
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When deep water sinks in the North Atlantic and moves away from where it formed, it gets
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The speed of sound in the ocean depends on
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In a numerical weather prediction model with a horizontal grid resolution of 50 km, convective cloud processes are parameterized, because
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Figure below shows SST anomaly (in °C). It is associated with the phenomenon known as
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For an inviscid and barotropic ocean of constant depth (D), a water parcel with initial vorticity
is displaced from the equator to the north pole. Latitudinal variation of the parcel vorticity (
) is well represented by the curve 
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