Engineering Sciences
GATE XE topic:applied-science PYQs
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Questions 1581–1590 of 1772. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 6
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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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A wave progresses up an estuary of decreasing water depth. If friction is neglected, then
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In the Ekman flow limit, directions of ocean surface current and the geostrophic wind are
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P and Q respectively describe flow fields corresponding to
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On the summer solstice day, the maximum incident shortwave radiation at the top of the atmosphere over the equator (up to one decimal place) is ________ W m
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In an isothermal atmosphere having a temperature of 15°C, the height at which pressure decreases to 1/10 of its value at the surface is ________ km. (Give the answer to two decimal places.) Take g = 9.8 m s
, gas constant R = 287 J kg
K
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