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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
Professor
Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
AOS 100/101
Spring 2017
HOMEWORK #7
(Due Wed. May 4)
Please provide concise, grammatically correct, neatly written answers to the following
questions. All questions can be answered in, at most, a few sentences. Don’t forget to
write your name on the paper!!!
NAME:
1) The diagram below shows the isobars at 5.4 km above sea-level. The following
questions relate to this diagram.
500 mb
504 mb L H L N
W E
S (a) Mark the locations of the trough axes with a solid line (2.5 pts) (b) Mark the location of the ridge axis with a dashed line. (2.5 pts) (c) Indicate the location(s) of the most negative vorticity with X’s. (5 pts)
(d) Where will the surface anticyclone(s) likely be located? Explain your answer
with reference to vorticity advection and its relationship to vertical motion.
(10 pts) 2) The diagram below represents a sequence of surface cyclones and anticyclones in
the Northern Hemisphere. N
W E
S (a) Draw the circulation associated with each region of High and Low pressure.
(5 pts)
(b)We refer to east/west winds as zonal winds and north/south winds as
meridional winds. By concentrating on the meridional winds between adjacent
highs and lows, explain how this train of extratropical weather systems helps
alleviate the energy surplus/deficit condition we discussed with respect to Fig.
2.10 in the book.
(15 pts)
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