Geography Quiz: Climatology : 18th November 2021

Which of the following are refer as the Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties and Shrieking or Stormy Sixties?

Which of the following clouds are extremely dense and opaque to the rays of the sun?

Consider the following statements regarding the Savanna Climate:
1. It has continuous dry season throughout the year.
2. It is spread throughout the tropical and temperate regions.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Which of the following is/are ideal conditions for temperature inversion?
1. Long nights, so that the outgoing radiation is greater than the incoming radiation.
2. Cloudy weather.
3. Rapid and unstable air.
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Which of the following clouds are delicate, feathery clouds that are made mostly of ice crystals?

Which of the following factor/factors is/are affecting the solar radiation which reaches earth’s surface?
1. Absorption and Scattering
2. Local variations in the atmosphere
3. Latitude of the location
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The amount and the intensity of insolation vary during a day, in a season and in a year. Which of the following factors are influences the insolation?
1. The rotation of the earth
2. The angle of inclination of the sun’s rays
3. The transparency of the atmosphere
4. The configuration of land
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With reference to the solar radiation, which of the following statements is/are correct?
1. Earth receives energy from sun through short wavelengths.
2. Due to the shape of geoid of earth the sun’s rays fall obliquely at the top of the atmosphere and the earth intercepts a very small portion of the sun’s energy.
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The term isotherm is associated with which of the following?