Engineering Sciences
2017 · Paper 1
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Questions 163–165 of 175. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.
Question 163
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If
and
are respectively zonal and meridional components of a flow field in geostrophic balance, then the divergence of this flow isYour answerChoose one option.
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During the Indian summer monsoon season, depressions do not intensify to tropical cyclones because
P: Indian sub-continent is very hot and large land-sea temperature difference pulls depressions quickly to land before they can intensify into cyclones.
Q: southwesterly winds at low level are not conducive for the formation of tropical cyclones.
R: SST cooling due to strong monsoonal winds prevents cyclone formation.
S: strong zonal wind shear during the monsoon season does not allow warm core formation.
Which of the above statement(s) is(are) correct
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Which among the following statement(s) is (are) correct,
P: ENSO and El-Nino are the same and refer to the warming of Equatorial Eastern Pacific SST.
Q: ENSO is an atmosphere-ocean coupled phenomenon and El-Nino is its oceanic part.
R: ENSO is an atmospheric phenomenon and El-Nino is an oceanic phenomenon
S: ENSO is the oscillatory component of El-Nino having a period of 4.7 years.
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