Question and diagrams found in picture below: A) A surface cyclone and anticyclo

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Question and diagrams found in picture below: A) A surface cyclone and anticyclone are shown schematically in the figure below. Also shown (in dashed line) are the 1000-850 mb column-averaged isotherms associated with each feature. Explain why the cyclone becomes more intense with height and the anticyclone does not. 4. a. A surface cyclone and anticyclone are shown schematically in the figure below. Also shown (in dashed lines) are the 1000-850 mb column-averaged isotherms associated with each feature. Explain why the cyclone becomes more intense with height and the anticyclone does not. 2 points. b. What are these features commonly called (hint: think of equivalent barotropic structures)? 1 point. T-8T Figure 4.1A

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A. Cyclones get more intense with haltitude because they are converging columns of air that rise upward whereas in anticyclone air diverge and they sink instead of rising due to their high pressuure center.

B.The term referred to here is Baroclinity which corrospond to region of distict air masses.

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