G Arctic Ocea AUSTRALIA Historical Hurricane Tracks Arctic Ocean NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA H5 H4 H3...

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G Arctic Ocea AUSTRALIA Historical Hurricane Tracks Arctic Ocean NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA H5 H4 H3 H2 H1 TS TD NA EUROPE A RICA Figure 6. Historical map of all tropical weather system tracks worldwide from the NOAA Coastal Services Center's website [Link 12A-9]. Precise replication of this image requires changing the various map-data layer options. 23. Figure 6 is an example NOAA product from an interactive mapping tool (a type of Geographic Information System (GIS)) which can dis- play historic hurricane tracks by ocean basin and color-coded storm strength similar to Figure 5. According to Figure 6, tropical storms forming in either the Northern or Southern Hemispheres cross the equator from one hemisphere to the other. (The equator is shown by the white horizontal line across the image's mid-section.) a. b. 24. This absence of tropical cyclone activity at the equator (0° latitude) producing rotation during storm formation. a. b. do do not a. b. C. is is not ocean basin. Typhoon Jebi in 25. From Figure 6 one can note that many tropical cyclones also occurred in areas including the 2018, the strongest typhoon to strike Japan in 25 years causing multiple fatalities, was among those storms. The frequency of storms in that location is correlated with the large expanses of warm ocean waters year-round in that part of the ocean. (You may recall the sea sur- face temperatures plotted in Investigation 9B for November 2018.) due to the absence of the Coriolis Effect that is essential in western North Pacific eastern South Pacific South Atlantic G Arctic Ocea AUSTRALIA Historical Hurricane Tracks Arctic Ocean NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA H5 H4 H3 H2 H1 TS TD NA EUROPE A RICA Figure 6. Historical map of all tropical weather system tracks worldwide from the NOAA Coastal Services Center's website [Link 12A-9]. Precise replication of this image requires changing the various map-data layer options. 23. Figure 6 is an example NOAA product from an interactive mapping tool (a type of Geographic Information System (GIS)) which can dis- play historic hurricane tracks by ocean basin and color-coded storm strength similar to Figure 5. According to Figure 6, tropical storms forming in either the Northern or Southern Hemispheres cross the equator from one hemisphere to the other. (The equator is shown by the white horizontal line across the image's mid-section.) a. b. 24. This absence of tropical cyclone activity at the equator (0° latitude) producing rotation during storm formation. a. b. do do not a. b. C. is is not ocean basin. Typhoon Jebi in 25. From Figure 6 one can note that many tropical cyclones also occurred in areas including the 2018, the strongest typhoon to strike Japan in 25 years causing multiple fatalities, was among those storms. The frequency of storms in that location is correlated with the large expanses of warm ocean waters year-round in that part of the ocean. (You may recall the sea sur- face temperatures plotted in Investigation 9B for November 2018.) due to the absence of the Coriolis Effect that is essential in western North Pacific eastern South Pacific South Atlantic

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Question 23 Answer Correct option b do not Explanation A tropical storm forming either in Northern o... View the full answer