GATE XE 2018 Paper 1 — page 55

Questions 163–165 of 175. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

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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wave amplitude decreases and wave length increases

wave amplitude increases and wave length decreases

wave amplitude decreases and wave length decreases

wave amplitude increases and wave length increases

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In the Ekman flow limit, directions of ocean surface current and the geostrophic wind are

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the same

surface current is 45° to the left of the geostrophic wind

surface current is 45° to the right of the geostrophic wind

exactly opposite to each other

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