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Which unit is conventionally used when plotting absolute vorticity charts?

  • A.Degrees per hour
  • B.Potential vorticity units, which are defined as 10 to the minus 6 kelvin metres squared per kilogram second
  • C.Units of 10 to the power minus 5 per second
  • D.Radians per second, which is the natural unit for any quantity measuring a rate of angular rotation

Answer: C

Charts are labelled in units of \( 10^{-5} \) per second, so a typical mid-latitude absolute vorticity reads as about 10 and a strong maximum as 20 or more. Choosing a unit that makes the values order ten keeps the labels legible. Radians per second is dimensionally the same but gives inconveniently small numbers, and potential vorticity units belong to a different field entirely.

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