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bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

Divergence (or convergence) is a difficult task to measure with any degree of accuracy using upper-level wind information. Therefore, meteorologists must look for something else that can be measured and, at the same time, can be related to regions of diverging (and converging) air. That something is called
a. curvature.
b. baroclinicity.
c. cold advection.
d. warm advection.
e. vorticity.

Question 2

Divergence and convergence of air are due to changes in
a. cloud pattern.
b. solar radiation.
c. radiational cooling.
d. precipitation type.
e. wind speed or wind direction.

micaelaswann · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 13, 2018

Answer to Question 1

61. Divergence (or convergence) is a difficult task to measure with any degree of accuracy using upper-level wind information. Therefore, meteorologists must look for something else that can be measured and, at the same time, can be related to regions of diverging (and converging) air. That something is called
a. curvature.
b. baroclinicity.
c. cold advection.
d. warm advection.
e. vorticity.

ANSWER: e
REFERENCES: Vorticity, Divergence, and Developing Mid-Latitude Cyclones
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: METT.AHRE.16.12.9 - Define the terms vorticity, planetary vorticity, relative vorticity, and absolute vorticity.
OTHER: Bloom's: Remember

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: e