atpl/oxford/met/ch1

Question 1

What is the approximate height of the tropopause at 50°N?

Answer 1

11 km

Question 2

How does the level of the tropopause vary with latitude in the Northern Hemisphere?

Answer 2

Decreases South - North

Question 3

What is the tropopause?

Answer 3

The boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere

Question 4

Where do you find the majority of the air within the atmosphere?

Answer 4

Troposphere

Question 5

Where is the 300 hPa level approx. in ISA?

Answer 5

30,000ft

Question 6

Where is the ozone layer?

Answer 6

Stratosphere

Question 7

What is the temperature decrease with height below 11km?

Answer 7

0.65°C - 100m

Question 8

What is the min. temperature according to ISA?

Answer 8

-56.5°C

Question 9

What is the approximate height of the 250 hPa level?

Answer 9

34,000ft

Question 10

What height is the tropopause and at what temperature?

Answer 10

At the equator 18km and -76°C

Question 11

Which of the following constituents in the atmosphere has the greatest effect on the weather?

Answer 11

Water Vapour

Question 12

What is the height and temperature of Tropopause?

Answer 12

16km and -75°C at Equator

Question 13

What is the average height of the Tropopause at the equator?

Answer 13

16km

Question 14

The Tropopause is lower:

Answer 14

at the North Pole than at the Equator

Question 15

What statement is true regarding the tropopause?

Answer 15

It is lower over the poles with a higher temperature.