Geography
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| Meteororlogy | the science of entific study of the atmosphere
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| Air mass | source region and sometimes etends through the lower half of the troposphere.
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| Convergent lifting | displacing air upward
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| convectional lifting | air is stimulated by local surace heating
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| orographic lifting | air is forced over a barrier such as a mountain range
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| frontal lifting | air is displaced upward along the leading edges of contrasting air masses
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| chinook winds | warm, downslope air flows characteristic of the leeward side of mountains.
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| cold front | leading edge of a cold air mass
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| Warm Front | leading edge of a warm air mass
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| Squall line | Fast-advancing cold front can cause violent lifting and create a zone right along or slightly ahead of the front
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| midlatuitude cyclone/wave cyclone | conflict between contrasting air masses
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| Stationary front | opposite directions
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| storm tracks | shift in latitude with the su and the seasons
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| Thunder | violent expansion of this abrubptly heated air sends shock waves through the atmosphere as the sonic bang____.
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| lightning | refers to flashes of light caused by enormous electrical discharges-tens of a millions to hundreds of millions of volts
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| hail | generally from within a cumulonimbus cloud
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| derechos | strong linear winds in ecess of 26 m/s
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| mesocyclone | rotates vertically within a supercell cloud (parent cloud) to a height of thousands of meters.
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| funnel clouds | swirl of the mesocyclone itself is visible as are smaller dark ______.
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