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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Cold front

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When advancing cold air mass meets & displaces warmer air.
Twice as steep as warm front.
Moves faster than warm front.
Lead to lots of precipitation in short time

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What are the 4 types of fronts?

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Cold
Warm
Stationary
Occluded

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Warm front

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When warm air mass meets colder air.

More gentle than cold front.

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Stationary fronts

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When neither air mass displaces the other

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Occluded fronts

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Formed when a cold overtakes a warm front.

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Air masses

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Large particles of air that are distinct from one another

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Characteristics of air masses that make it recognized as distinct

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  1. It must be large
  2. It must have uniform properties in all dimensions
  3. It must travel as a unit. Must not change as it moves through other air
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How do air masses originate?

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They stagnate overtop of a region for so long that they gain their properties.
Usually happens in high pressure areas

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A- Antarctic

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Very cold, dry & stable

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Continental polar -cp

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Cold, dry, very stable

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Maritime polar- mp

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Cold, moist, relatively unstable

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continental tropical

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Hot, very dry, unstable

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Maritime tropical

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Warm, most, varying stability

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Equatorial

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Warm, very moist, unstable

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Low latitude air mass

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Warm or hot

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High latitude air mass

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Cold or cool

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Midlatitude anticyclones

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Larger than cyclones
Clockwise, divergent air flow
No fronts
Calm

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Midlatitude cyclones

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Migrate w to east
Usually form when cold & warm air meet.
1000 miles in diameter
Oval shape
Northern hemisphere
Counterclockwise
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Cyclogenesis

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Birth of a cyclone

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Cyclogenesis lasts…

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3 to 10 days

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Birth of cyclone ends when

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Cold front catches up to warm front

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Occlusion

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Death of cyclone. Once all warm air is pushed up, there’s no more instability

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Hurricanes get named once they reach

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39 mph

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Considered a hurricane when

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Reaches 74 mph

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Characteristics of hurricanes

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Low pressure, high winds

warm & moist air rises

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No hurricanes within 3 degrees

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Rare closer than 8 to 10 n/s of equator

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What’s a storm surge

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Water 25 ft above normal

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