5-9.
What weather pattern may develop
when a tropical cyclone moves
northward into an area with a
strong temperature gradient?
1.
The tropical cyclone center
will maintain its circulation,
and the area of gale force
winds will decrease
2.
The tropical cyclone center
will lose its circulation, and
the area of gale force winds
will increase
3.
The tropical cyclone center
will lose its circulation, and
the area of gale force winds
will decrease
4.
The tropical cyclone center
will maintain its circulation,
and the area of gale force
winds will increase
5-10.
If you use the regression equation
method for forecasting the movement
of typhoons, all EXCEPT which of
the following criteria should be
considered?
1.
The 700-hPa heights and
tendency 10° latitude from the
typhoons center, and 90° to
the right of its path of motion
2.
The 700-hPa level moisture
3.
The 700-hPa heights and
tendency 10° latitude north of
the typhoons center
4.
The intensity and orientation
of the axis of the subtropical
anticyclone that is steering
the system
5-11.
Which of the following is the
correct MANOP heading for tropical
cyclone warnings in the Atlantic
Ocean?
5-12.
Which of the following is the
correct WOP heading for tropical
cyclone warnings in the western
Pacific Ocean?
5-13.
Which of the following wavelengths
is considered optimum for use by
weather radar in the detection of
precipitation?
1.
1 to
5 cm
2.
5 to 10 cm
3.
15 to 20 cm
4.
20 to 25 cm
5-14.
The ability to distinguish between
two targets in the same direction
from the radar, but at different
ranges, is a definition of what
term?
1.
Range finding
2.
Range differentation
3.
Range resolution
4.
Range attenuation
5-15.
The advent of the WSR-88D occurred
during the period 1977 through 1979
in the United States at what
location?
1.
The National oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Environmental Research
Laboratories, Washington D.C.
2.
The University of Colorado at
Boulder
3.
The Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) San Diego
4.
The National Severe Storms
Laboratory in Oklahoma
5-16.
Which of the following would be an
example of velocity aliased data?
1.
Velocities that can be measured
without error
2.
Velocities that exceed the
maximum unambiguous velocity
3.
Velocities equal to the Nyquist
frequency
4.
Wind speeds equal to the
Nyquist frequency
5-17.
A radar set hearing a previous
pulse, while listening for the most
recent pulse, would be a definition
of what term?
1.
Attenuation
2.
Range-folding
3.
Aliased data
4.
Pulse repetition frequency
(PRF) reversal
5-18.
In the radials where it appears,
range-folded data has what type
appearance?
1.
Baseball bat
2.
Globular
3.
Elliptical
4.
Spiked
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