Sun. Sep 28th, 2025

General Introduction

  1. Who introduced centigrade scale for temperature in 1641?

    Options:
    1. Edmund Hally
    2. Du crest
    3. Santorre
    4. Francis Bacon

    Option: B

  2. Who proposed the cell model of tropical circulation between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn in 1735?

    Options:
    1. Du crest
    2. Francis Bacon
    3. Santorre
    4. Hadley

    Option: D

  3. For the first time, who presented well documented classification of clouds in 1803

    Options:
    1. Santorre
    2. Du crest
    3. Luke Howard
    4. Renou

    Option: C

  4. Who used Latin words to name the clouds (like stratus, from Latin stratum, meaning thereby layer; cumulus, meaning pile-heap; cirrus, meaning hair)?

    Options:
    1. Renou
    2. Santorre
    3. Du crest
    4. Luke Howard

    Option: D

  5. Name of the institute/institutions which publish International Cloud Atlas

    Options:
    1. IMC
    2. WMO & IMC
    3. UN & IMC
    4. WMO & UN

    Option: D

  6. Who coined the term psychrometer?

    Options:
    1. Ernst Ferdinand August
    2. John Leslie
    3. Alexander Von Humboldt
    4. William Redfield

    Option: A

  7. Who invented psychrometer?

    Options:
    1. Ernst Ferdinand August
    2. John Leslie
    3. Alexander Von Humboldt
    4. William Redfield

    Option: B

  8. A psychrometer measures

    Options:
    1. Cloudiness
    2. Wind Direction
    3. Wind Velocity
    4. Dry-bulb and Wet-bulb temperatures

    Option: D

  9. When was psychrometer invented?

    Options:
    1. 1825
    2. 1841
    3. 1817
    4. 1831

    Option: A

  10. Who studied polar and equatorial air currents and postulated the laws of atmospheric storms?

    Options:
    1. H.W. Dove
    2. William Redfield
    3. Espy
    4. Lord Rayleigh

    Option: A

  11. First weather map of United States of America was prepared by

    Options:
    1. Espy
    2. H.W. Dove
    3. William Redfield
    4. Lord Rayleigh

    Option: D

  12. When was Coriolis Force identified and formulated by Gaspard de Coriolis?

    Options:
    1. 1835
    2. 1844
    3. 1909
    4. 1799

    Option: B

  13. Who prepare first world map of precipitation in 1845?

    Options:
    1. H.W. Dove
    2. Espy
    3. Berhaus
    4. Gaspard de Coriolis

    Option: C

  14. Who rejected the Greeks’ division of the globe into tropical, temperate and frigid zones on the basis of latitudes and used isotherms to divide the globe into temperature zones?

    Options:
    1. Soupan
    2. J. Von Hann
    3. Koppen
    4. Berhaus

    Option: A

  15. Match List  I with List  II and select the correct answer by using codes given below:

    List-I(Invention) List -II(Year of invention)
    (a) Stratosphere i. 1825
    (b) Ozone layer ii. 1902
    (c) Psychrometer iii. 1913
    (d) Barometer iv. 1643
    Options:
    1. i ii iii iv
    2. iv iii ii i
    3. ii iii i iv
    4. ii iv i iii

    Option: C

  16. Who propounded ‘polar front theory’ in 1918

    Options:
    1. Soupan
    2. G.T. Trewartha
    3. Koppen
    4. V. Bjerknes and J. Bjerknes

    Option: D

  17. The use of aircrafts for collecting atmospheric data started in

    Options:
    1. 1912
    2. 1924
    3. 1925
    4. 1928

    Option: C

  18. The use of radiosondes for collecting atmospheric data started in

    Options:
    1. 1925
    2. 1928
    3. 1924
    4. 1912

    Option: B

  19. The first meteorological satellite is

    Options:
    1. TIROS 1
    2. NOAA-15
    3. METEOSAT-8
    4. GOES-5

    Option: A

  20. Which country launchedthe first meteorological satellite, TIROS 1

    Options:
    1. USA
    2. RUSSIA
    3. CHINA
    4. GERMANY

    Option: A