GATE XE · 2017 · XE-H
Question 162: Atmospheric Science
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Question 162
XE-HNAT2 marksNeeds review
A cumulonimbus cloud forms by an air parcel rising from the sea level with an initial temperature and specific humidity of 27°C and 20 gm kg
, respectively. Assume that moist static energy is conserved in this cloud. Then the cloud temperature at an altitude of 1.5 km is ______ K.[Specific heat of dry air at constant pressure: 1005 J kg
K
, Specific heat of water vapor at constant pressure: 1850 J kg
K
, g = 10 m s
, Latent heat of evaporation: 2.45 × 10
J kg
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2017XE-H
GATE XE 2017 · Paper 1
Engineering Sciences · Original paper archive
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- Section XE-H
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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