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Questions for WIND1

Answer the following questions

1. An aircraft is flying East to West in the Northern Hemisphere. What is happening to his altitude?
2. What is the Bora?
3. What is a land breeze
4. What is the difference between Gradient and Geostrophic winds?
5. For the same pressure gradient at 50°N, 60°N and 40°N, the geostrophic wind speed is?
6. In a high pressure systems
7. Standing in the Northern Hemisphere, north of a polar frontal depression travelling west to east, the wind will
8. Wind is caused by?
9. At a coastal airfield, with the runway parallel to the coastline. You are downwind over the sea with the runway to your right. On a warm summer afternoon, what would you expect the wind to be on finals?
10. Wind at altitude is usually given as …….. in ……..
11. Flying from an area of low pressure in the Southern Hemisphere at low altitudes, where is the wind coming from?
12. Where would an anemometer be placed?
13. What is the effect of a mountain valley wind?
14. Where are easterly and westerly jets found?
15. With all other things being equal with a high and a low having constantly spaced circular isobars. Where is the wind the fastest?
16. If flying in the Alps with a Foehn effect from the south
17. What prevents air from flowing directly from a high to a low pressure
18. The Geostrophic Wind blows at your flight level in Northern Hemisphere the true altitude and indicated altitude remain constant, is the crosswind
19. A large pressure gradient is shown by
20. What causes wind?
21. The wind in the Northern Hemisphere at the surface and above the friction layer at 2000 ft would be?
22. ATC will only report wind as gusting if
23. 90km/hr wind in kts is
24. Which of the following is an example of a Foehn wind?
25. If you fly with left drift in the Northern Hemisphere, what is happening to surface pressure?
26. A METAR for Paris gave the surface wind at 260°/20. Wind at 2000ft is most likely to be
27. What causes the Geostrophic wind to be stronger than the gradient wind around a low?
28. When heading South in the Southern Hemisphere you experience Starboard drift
29. What is the relationship between the 5000 ft wind and the surface wind in the southern hemisphere
30. Foehn winds are
31. Where would you expect to find the strongest wind on the ground in temperate latitudes?
32. The gradient wind is more than geostrophic wind around an anticyclone because the
33. In central Europe, where are the greatest wind speeds?
34. What is the relationship between the 2000 ft wind and the surface wind in the Northern Hemisphere
35. Comparing the surface wind to the 3000ft wind