Met Question and Answer

1- What do u call an elongated area of high pressure?

Ridge

2- In which layer does most of the weather occur?

Troposphere.Known as the lower atmosphere.

3- what does a closely spaced isobar indicate?

Strong winds widely spaced isobars mean lighter winds.

4- what type of weather would you expect in a cold front?

Cumulonimbus

5- atmospheric pressure is measured in?

Hectopascal (hPa) Millibars and Inches of Mercury

6- which wind patterns occur at night?

Land Breeze

7- how many oktas does a cloud scattered cover?

3-4 oktas

8- Humidity is defined as moisture in the air

9- what do u call a front that is colliding with each other?

Stationary Front

10- what type of wind would you experience on a cumulus stage?

Updraft

11- what should you expect when you are about to get past a microburst?

Down graft (Tail Wind)

12- which Ice would create more hazard?

Clear Ice
13- lapse rate will stop at what altitude?

up to approximately 12 kilometres (39,000 ft) of altitude)

14- what situation produces more threat to aviation?

Volcanic ash

15- what do u call a spinning column of air?

Funnel Cloud

16- the principle of raising and sinking of air

Convection

17- what do u call raising air?

Thermals

18- what is ITCZ?

The Intertropical Convergence Zone

19- what do u call the largest cell?

Hadley cell

20- most of the vapor in the atmosphere is found where?

The Troposphere

21- What are the characteristics of wind sheer?

Sudden change of wind speed and direction.

22- Please select one condition necessary for the formation of cumulonimbus clouds
Unstable moist air

23- the amount of water vapor the air can hold depends on what?

Depends on the temperature

24- what would be the difference when u are crossing a front

Frequent wind speed changes in temperature
25- what are the characteristics of stable air?
Poor visibility, Light/No turbulence, Stratiform clouds and Intermittent to continuous
precipitation

26- the wind system associated with a low pressure in the northern hemisphere is
called?
Called cyclone, Low pressure

27- what causes the anticyclone?

High pressure

28- the presence of ice pellets on the surface is evidence that there is…?

Early growth of hail stage

29-what do u call a rise in temperature as you increase altitude?

An inversion

30- what prevents air flowing directly from high pressure to low pressure?
The Coriolis effect

31- Standing lenticular altocumulus?

Typically in parallel alignment to the wind direction
1. Every physical process of weather is accompanied by or is the result of
C. a heat exchange.

2. Moisture is added to a parcel of air by

A. evaporation and sublimation.

3.In the Northern Hemisphere, the wind is deflected to the

C. right by Coriolis force.

4. Why does the wind have a tendency to flow parallel to the isobars above the friction level?
C. Coriolis force tends to counterbalance the horizontal pressure gradient.

5.With regard to windflow patterns shown on surface analysis charts, when the isobars are
A. close together, the pressure gradient force is greater and wind velocities are stronger.

6.What causes wind?

C. Pressure differences.

7.Which is true regarding a cold front occlusion? The air ahead of the warm front
A. is warmer than the air behind the overtaking cold front.

8.Which is true with respect to a high- or low-pressure system?

C. A high-pressure area or ridge is an area of descending air.

9.Which is true regarding high- or low-pressure systems?

C. A low-pressure area or trough is an area of rising air.

10. When flying into a low-pressure area in the Northern Hemisphere, the wind direction and
velocity will be from the
B. left and increasing.

11. While flying cross-country, in the Northern Hemisphere, you experience a continuous left
crosswind which is associated with a major wind system. This indicates that you
C. are flying toward an area of generally unfavorable weather conditions

12. What prevents air from flowing directly from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas?
A. Coriolis force.

13. The general circulation of air associated with a high-pressure area in the Northern
Hemisphere is
A. outward, downward, and clockwise.
14. The wind system associated with a low-pressure area in the Northern Hemisphere is
C. a cyclone and is caused by Coriolis force.

15. During the winter months in the middle latitudes, the jet stream shifts toward the
B. south and speed increases

16. The strength and location of the jet stream is normally

A. weaker and farther north in the summer.

17. A common location of clear air turbulence is

A. in an upper trough on the polar side of a jet stream

18. The jet stream and associated clear air turbulence can sometimes be visually identified in
flight by
A. long streaks of cirrus clouds.

19. A strong wind shear can be expected

C. on the low-pressure side of a jetstream core where the speed at the core is stronger than
110 knots.

20. Which type of jetstream can be expected to cause the greater turbulence?
C. A curving jetstream associated with a deep low-pressure trough.

21. Which feature is associated with the tropopause?

C. Abrupt change in temperature lapse rate.

22. What is the standard temperature at 10.000 feet?

B. -5°C

24. What is the standard temperature at 20.000 feet?

B.-25 °C

25. Which is true regarding actual air temperature and dew point temperature spread? The
temperature spread
C. decreases as the relative humidity increases.

26. Which cloud types would indicate convective turbulence?

B. Towering cumulus clouds.

27. Which combination of weather-producing variables would likely result in cumuliform-type

clouds, good visibility, and showery rain?
C. Unstable, moist air and orographic lifting.
28. Which are characteristics of a cold air mass moving over a warm surface?
C. Cumuliform clouds, turbulence, and good visibility.

29. What is the approximate base of the cumulus clouds if the temperature at 2,000 feet MSL is
10°C and the dew point is 1°C?
A. 6,000 feet MSL.

30. What determines the structure or type of clouds which will form as a result of air being
forced to ascend?
A. The stability of the air before lifting occurs.

31. The presence of standing lenticular altocumulus clouds is a good indication of

C. very strong turbulence.

32. Virga is best described as

A. streamers of precipitation trailing beneath clouds which evaporates before reaching the
ground.

33. Fog produced by frontal activity is a result of saturation due to

B. evaporation of precipitation.

34. Which in-flight hazard is most commonly associated with warm fronts?
A. Precipitation-induced fog.

35. A situation most conducive to the formation of advection fog is

C. an air mass moving inland from the coastline during the winter.

36. Advection fog has drifted over a coastal airport during the day. What may tend to dissipate
or lift this fog into low stratus clouds?
C. Wind 15 knots or stronger.

37. In what ways do advection fog, radiation fog, and steam fog differ in their formation or
location?
B. Radiation fog is restricted to land areas; advection fog is most common along coastal areas;
steam fog forms over a water surface.

38. What lifts advection fog into low stratus clouds?

B. Surface winds of approximately 15 knots or stronger.

39. Which conditions are favorable for the formation of a surface based temperature inversion?
A. Clear, cool nights with calm or light wind.
40. With respect to advection fog, which statement is true?
B. It can appear suddenly during day or night, and it is more persistent than radiation fog.

41. What are the characteristics of stable air?

A. Poor visibility, steady precipitation; stratus clouds.

42. Which would decrease the stability of an air mass?

B. Warming from below.

43. Which would increase the stability of an air mass?

B. Cooling from below.

44. What is a characteristic of stable air?

A. Stratiform clouds.

45. Which is a characteristic of stable air?

C. Restricted visibility.

46. Which is a characteristic typical of a stable air mass?

A. Continuous precipitation.

47. What type weather can one expect from moist, unstable air, and very warm surface
temperature?
C. Strong updrafts and cumulonimbus clouds.

48. A moist, unstable air mass is characterized by

A. cumuliform clouds and showery precipitation.

49. If clouds form as a result of very stable, moist air being forced to ascend a mountain slope,
the clouds will be
C. stratus type with little vertical development and little or no turbulence.

50. The formation of either predominantly stratiform or predominantly cumuliform clouds is

dependent upon the
B. stability of the air being lifted.

51. When an air mass is stable, which of these conditions are most likely to exist?
C. Smoke, dust, haze, etc., concentrated at the lower levels with resulting poor visibility.

52. Which is true regarding the development of convective circulation?

C. Cool air must sink to force the warm air upward.
53. When conditionally unstable air with high-moisture content and very warm surface
temperature is forecast, one can expect what type of weather?
C. Strong updrafts and cumulonimbus clouds.

54. Convective circulation patterns associated with sea breezes are caused by
C. land absorbing and radiating heat faster than the water.

55. From which measurement of the atmosphere can stability be determined?

C. The ambient lapse rate.

56. The difference found by subtracting the temperature of a parcel of air theoretically lifted
from the surface to 500 millibars and the existing temperature at 500 millibars is
called the
B. lifted index.

57. The conditions necessary for the formation of stratiform clouds are a lifting action and
C. stable, moist air.

58. What visible signs indicate extreme turbulence in thunderstorms?

A. Cumulonimbus clouds, very frequent lightning, and roll clouds.

59. What feature is normally associated with the cumulus stage of a thunderstorm?
B. Continuous updraft.

60. The conditions necessary for the formation of cumulonimbus clouds are a lifting action and
B. unstable, moist air.

61. The most severe weather conditions, such as destructive winds, heavy hail, and tornadoes,
are generally associated with
A. squall lines.

62. Of the following, which is accurate regarding turbulence associated with thunderstorms?
B. Outside the cloud, shear turbulence can be encountered 20 miles laterally from a severe
storm.

63. Which statement is true concerning squall lines?

B. They offer the most intense weather hazards to aircraft.

64. Which statement is true regarding squall lines?

B. They are nonfrontal and often contain severe, steady-state thunderstorms.
65. Select the true statement pertaining to the life cycle of a thunderstorm.
C. The beginning of rain at the Earth's surface indicates the mature stage of the thunderstorm.’

66. Which is true regarding the use of airborne weather-avoidance radar for the recognition of
certain weather conditions?
C. The radarscope provides no assurance of avoiding instrument weather conditions.

67. Which weather phenomenon signals the beginning of the mature stage of a thunderstorm?
B. The start of rain.

68. During the life cycle of a thunderstorm, which stage is characterized predominately by
downdrafts?
C. Dissipating.

70. If airborne radar is indicating an extremely intense thunderstorm echo, this thunderstorm
should be avoided by a distance of at least
C. 20 miles.

71. Which situation would most likely result in freezing precipitation? Rain falling from air which
has a temperature of
A. more than 32°F into air having a temperature of 32°F or less.

72. Which statement is true concerning the hazards of hail?

A. Hailstones may be encountered in clear air several miles from a thunderstorm.

73. Hail is most likely to be associated with

C. cumulonimbus clouds.

74. Ice pellets encountered during flight normally are evidence that
A. a warm front is about to pass.

75. Ice pellets encountered during flight are normally evidence that
A. freezing rain exists at higher altitude.

76. What is indicated if ice pellets are encountered at 8,000 feet?

C. Freezing rain at higher altitude.

77. A pilot reporting turbulence that momentarily causes slight, erratic changes in altitude
and/or attitude should report it as
B. light turbulence.

78. When turbulence causes changes in altitude and/or attitude, but aircraft control remains
positive, that should be reported as
C. moderate.
79. Turbulence that is encountered above 15,000 feet AGL not associated with cumuliform
cloudiness, including thunderstorms, should be reported as
C. clear air turbulence

80. The minimum vertical wind shear value critical for probable moderate or greater turbulence
is
C. 6 knots per 1,000 feet.

81. One of the most dangerous features of mountain waves is the turbulent areas in and
B. below rotor clouds.

82. The conditions most favorable to wave formation over mountainous areas are a laver of
C. stable air at mountaintop altitude and a wind of at least 20 knots blowing across the ridge.

83. When flying low over hilly terrain, ridges, or mountain ranges, the greatest potential danger
from turbulent air currents will usually be encountered on the
C. leeward side when flying into the wind.

84. Convective currents are most active on warm summer afternoons when winds are
B. light.

85. During departure, under conditions of suspected low-level wind shear, a sudden decrease in
headwind will cause
C. a loss in airspeed equal to the decrease in wind velocity.

86. During an approach, the most important and most easily recognized means of being alerted
to possible wind shear is monitoring the
B. power and vertical velocity required to remain on the proper glidepath.

87. What is an important characteristic of wind shear?

B. It can be present at any level and can exist in both a horizontal and vertical direction.

88. Low-level wind shear may occur when

A. there is a low-level temperature inversion with strong winds above the inversion.

89. Hazardous wind shear is commonly encountered

C. in areas of temperature inversion and near thunderstorms.

90. If a temperature inversion is encountered immediately after takeoff or during an approach

to a landing, a potential hazard exists due to
A. wind shear.
91. GIVEN:
Winds at 3.000 feet AGL ………30 kts
Surface winds…………. Calm
A. increase approach airspeed slightly above normal to avoid stalling.

92. The Low Level Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS) provides wind data and software process
to detect the presence of a
C. change in wind direction and/or speed within a very short distance above the airport.