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Agriculture · Q220

Environmental Science In Agricultural

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 220

Q220

The tropical cyclone is known as

A.
Hurrican
B.
Typhoon
Answer
C.
Catrina
D.
A and B only

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
The tropical cyclone is known as Typhoon.
A tropical cyclone is a generic term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has closed low-level circulation. Hurricanes and typhoons are the same weather phenomenon known as tropical cyclones.
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, accounting for almost one-third of the world's annual tropical cyclones. It is referred to as a mature tropical cyclone in the northeast Pacific and northern Atlantic.