Meteorology - PPL(H) - Private Pilot License

Question 1

Information about pressure patterns and frontal situation can be found in which chart?

Accepted Answer

Surface weather chart.

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Wind chart.

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Significant Weather Chart (SWC).

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Hypsometric chart.

Question 2

The movement of air flowing together is called...

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Convergence.

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Subsidence.

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Divergence.

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Soncordence.

Question 3

What are the air masses that Central Europe is mainly influenced by?

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Polar cold air and tropical warm air

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Arctic and polar cold air

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Tropical and arctic cold air

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Equatorial and tropical warm air

Question 4

Winds blowing uphill are defined as...

Accepted Answer

Anabatic winds.

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Subsident winds.

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Katabatic winds.

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Convergent winds.

Question 5

What wind conditions can be expected in areas showing large distances between isobars?

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Variable winds, formation of local wind systems

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Strong prevailing easterly winds with rapid backing

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Formation of local wind systems with strong prevailing westerly winds

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Strong prevailing westerly winds with rapid veering

Question 6

The pressure which is measured at a ground station and reduced to mean sea level (MSL) by means of the actual atmospheric conditions is called...

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QFF.

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QFE.

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QNE

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QNH.

Question 7

Winds blowing downhill are defined as...

Accepted Answer

Katabatic winds.

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Subsident winds.

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Anabatic winds.

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Convergent winds.

Question 8

What weather phenomena have to be expected around an upper-level trough?

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Development of showers and thunderstorms (Cb)

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Calm wind, forming of shallow cumulus clouds

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Formation of high stratus clouds, ground-covering cloud bases

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Calm weather, formation of lifted fog layers

Question 9

What process results in the formation of "orographic fog" ("hill fog")?

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Warm, moist air is moved across a hill or a mountain range

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Evaporation from warm, moist ground area into very cold air

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Prolonged radiation during nights clear of clouds

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Cold, moist air mixes with warm, moist air

Question 10

What situation is called "over-development" in a weather report?

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Vertical development of Cumulus clouds to rain showers

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Development of a thermal low to a storm depression

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Widespreading of Cumulus clouds below an inversion layer

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Change from blue thermals to cloudy thermals during the afternoon

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