Engineering Sciences
2025 · 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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A rotating weather system has a tangential velocity of 100 m s
, diameter of 1 km, and located at a latitude where the Coriolis parameter is 10
s
. Which one of the following statements is true about this weather system?Your answerChoose one option.
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The sea surface height concentric isolines (L1 and L2 in cm) and the distance between them (dx in km) for three different eddies at the same latitude are given in the figure below. (The figures are not to scale.)

Which one of the following orders is correct about the magnitudes of the geostrophic currents within the isolines?
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The vertical (depth) profiles for three parameters P1, P2, and P3 in the northern Indian Ocean are given in the figure below. The values along the x-axis are the normalized values of the parameters and y-axis is the depth (m).

Identify the parameters P1, P2, and P3 from the options given below.
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