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Which of the following would NOT be expected on a clear calm night?

  • A.A radiation inversion
  • B.A low mixing height
  • C.Fanning plume behaviour
  • D.Looping plume behaviour

Answer: D

Correct answer: Looping plume behaviour

Looping would not be expected on a clear calm night. It requires strongly unstable, superadiabatic conditions produced by solar heating of the ground, so it is a daytime form.

The other three are exactly what a clear calm night produces. The ground radiates heat to the cloudless sky and cools, forming a radiation inversion; that inversion caps the layer and gives a low mixing height; and the strong stability suppresses vertical spread, so a plume takes the thin flat form of fanning.

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