What is the name of the broad ocean current that circles Antarctica from west to east?
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current
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What is the name of the broad ocean current that circles Antarctica from west to east?
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current
What was the strongest wind gust ever recorded by an anemometer, measured during Cyclone Olivia in 1996?
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408 km/h
Which chemical is commonly used as an ice-forming agent in cloud seeding?
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Silver iodide
What is the name of the optical phenomenon that can make distant objects appear displaced or duplicated over hot surfaces?
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Mirage
What name is given to the unusually cold climate of 1816 caused partly by the Mount Tambora eruption?
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Year Without a Summer
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Which chemical is commonly used as an ice-forming agent in cloud seeding?
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Silver iodide
What name is given to the unusually cold climate of 1816 caused partly by the Mount Tambora eruption?
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Year Without a Summer
Which weather phenomenon produces snow on the downwind side of the Great Lakes?
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Lake-effect snow
What atmospheric measurement is expressed in parts per million on the Keeling Curve?
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Carbon dioxide concentration
What is the long-term warming trend caused by increasing heat-trapping gases called?
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Global warming
What instrument records atmospheric pressure?
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Barometer