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Mr. Biando's Lab

Mr. Biando's Lab - Weather - Air Masses/Fronts

TermDefinition
Air Mass A large body of air where temperature and moisture content are constant throughout.
Front The boundry between air masses of different densities and usually different temperatures.
Cyclone An area in the atmosphere that has lower pressure than the surrounding areas and winds that spiral towards the center.
Anticyclone The rotation of air around a high-pressure center in the direction opposite to the Earth's rotation.
Maritime Polar Air Mass A large wet cold body of air that forms over a body of water from a polar region.
Maritime Tropical Air Mass A large wet warm body of air that forms over a warm body of water fron a tropical region.
Continental Polar Air Mass A large dry cold body of air that forms over land from a polar region.
Continental Tropical Air Mass A large dry warm body of air that forms over land from a tropical region.
Occluded Front A front that forms when a warm air mass gets caught between two colder air masses, producing cool temperatures and large amounts of snow or rain.
Stationary Front A front that forms when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass, in which neither have enough force to lift the warm mass, so they stall and cause many days of cloudy wet weather.
Cold Front A front that forms where cold air moves under warmer air, pushing it up, and causes cold dry weather.
Warm Front A front that forms where warm air moves up and over the colder air, and causes drizzly rain followed by clear warm weather.
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