GATE XE 2022 Paper 1 — page 55

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

An unsaturated moist air parcel undergoes adiabatic ascent in atmosphere without mixing with surrounding air. Air is so clean that there is no possibility for heterogeneous nucleation. Which one of the following plots depicts the vertical variation of water vapor pressure (shown as continuous line) and saturation water vapor pressure (shown as dotted/dashed line) of the parcel?

Diagram for Engineering Sciences question 163

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A fluid is in solid body rotation in a cylindrical container of radius

rotating with an angular velocity

. The circulation per unit area around a circular loop in the horizontal plane of radius

(

), whose center coincides with the axis of rotation is

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Consider a layer of atmosphere where temperature increases with height. If the concentration of a vertically well-mixed greenhouse gas suddenly increases in this layer, then an immediate consequence is that

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infrared radiation leaving the top of the layer decreases.

infrared radiation leaving the top of the layer increases.

infrared radiation leaving the top of the layer remains unchanged.

the layer becomes optically thinner to infrared radiation.

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