Convective activity over land in mid-latitudes is greatest in: summer

in the afternoon

The dry adiabatic lapse rate: has a constant fixed value

The diurnal variation in temperature is largest when the sky is:

clear and winds are weak

On a clear sky, continental ground surface, wind calm, the minimum

temperature is reached approximately: half an hour after sunrise

The value of the saturated adiabatic lapse rate is closest to that of

the dry adiabatic lapse rate in: cirrus

Which of the following is a common cause of ground or surface

temperature inversion? Terrestrial radiation on a clear night with no
or very light winds

A wide body takes off on a clear night in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Shortly after take off the aircrafts rate of climb drops to zero. This
can be due to: a very strong temperature inversion

In still air the temperature decreases at an average of 1.2 C per

100m increase in altitude. This temperature change is called:
environmental lapse rate
In the disturbed temperate regions: the weather is mainly governed
by travelling frontal depressions

Horizontal differences in the mean temperature of a layer are

caused by: differential heating of the earths surface
Which of the following statements concerning the thermal wind
component (TWC) is true?

TWC increases as the horizontal mean temperature gradient

increases

If the depth of the troposphere increases, the temperature at the

tropopause must: decrease

Air at T = +16 C and DP = +4 C is forced from sea level over a

10,000 ft mountain range and descends back to sea level on the
other side. If the leeward condensation level is observed to be
8,000 ft what will be the final temperature?
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A parcel of unsaturated air is forced to rise through an isothermal

layer. So long as it remains unsaturated, the temperature of the
parcel: decreases 1 C per 100m.

Absolute instability in the atmosphere will occur when the

environmental lapse rate is greater than both saturated adiabatic
lapse rate and dry adiabatic lapse rate

For both saturated and unsaturated air instability will occur when
the : environmental lapse rate is greater than both dry adiabatic
lapse rate and saturated adiabatic lapse rate

In the lower levels of the atmosphere when the environmental lapse

rate is greater than saturated adiabatic lapse rate but less than dry
adiabatic lapse rate the air mass is described as being conditionally
unstable