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What is being carried into a layer where the wind backs with height?

  • A.Warmer air, which is the situation associated with a wind that turns clockwise as height increases
  • B.Drier air
  • C.Air of the same temperature, since backing indicates only a change of direction and not of air mass
  • D.Colder air

Answer: D

Backing places the thermal wind to the left of the lower level wind, and with cold air on the left of the thermal wind the flow must be advecting cold air into the layer. This typically appears behind a cold front and is often accompanied by falling thickness. Humidity is not determined by the turning, and a purely directional change without any advection would require the isotherms to be parallel to the flow, which is a different situation entirely.

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