GATE XE 2017 Paper 1 — page 53

Questions 157–159 of 175. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

At 45°N, wind is blowing northward and its magnitude decreases eastward from 10 m s

to 1 m s

over a distance of 18 km. The absolute vorticity of the flow is __________ × 10

[Angular velocity of the Earth: 7.27 × 10

rad s

]

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Sea surface height anomalies at the locations A, B, C and D are -10, -15, 5 and 0 cm respectively.

Diagram for Engineering Sciences question 158

The magnitude of geostrophic velocity at P is __________ m s

[Take 1° = 100 km, g = 10 m s

, Angular velocity of the Earth: 7.27 × 10

rad s

]

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In a severe tropical cyclone, 250 mm of rainfall occurs in an area having a radius of 200 km. If the energy supplied to the system from this rainfall is N times the energy of one atomic bomb (=1.5 × 10

kJ), then the value of N is __________.

[Density of freshwater: 1000 kg m

, Specific heat of seawater: 4200 J kg

, Latent heat of evaporation: 2.45 × 10

J kg

]

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2017 · Paper 1

Question 157

Question 158

Question 159