NS2 Test Bank: NS2-M3C9 - Wind and Weather

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Difference in pressure between two area

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Gradient

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Any semipermanent belt of westerly winds, especially those that prevail at latitudes lying between the tropical and polar regions of the Earth

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Prevailing westerlies

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A weather condition in which strong, hot, dust bearing winds descend to the Pacific coast around Los Angeles from inland desert regions

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Santa Anas (winds)

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Moving outward

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Divergence

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Any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere

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Trade winds

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What is the variation of temperature in degrees Fahrenheit over open water?

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A traveling atmospheric low-pressure system

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Migratory lows

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A belt of calm and baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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Doldrums

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Any instrument used to measure wind speed

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Anemometer

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Seasonal winds of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter

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Monsoon