Author Question: Speed divergence A) occurs when faster-moving air encounters slower moving air. B) can occur ... (Read 211 times)

mckennatimberlake · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

Speed divergence

A) occurs when faster-moving air encounters slower moving air.
B) can occur when contour lines on an upper-level weather map come closer together.
C) gives the same result as confluence.
D) has little actual effect on weather patterns.

Question 2

Given the implications of the hydrostatic equation, we would expect that

A) pressure be independent of altitude.
B) cold, dense air would have a greater vertical pressure gradient than would warm, light air.
C) differences in temperature on either side of a cold front should not have any significant effect on upper-level pressure.
D) differences in temperature on either side of a warm front should not have any significant effect on upper-level pressure.