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Assignment II Meteorology: Name: Jose Julius B. Paloma Jr. Course/Year and Section: BSMT Ii-B
Assignment II Meteorology: Name: Jose Julius B. Paloma Jr. Course/Year and Section: BSMT Ii-B
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with a low
pressure center,
connecting them (see
above). This frontal
"system" can be
thought of as separating
a cold air mass from a
warm air mass, and the
two different types of
fronts simply indicate
which direction those portions of the different air masses
are moving.
Most of Earth's disturbed weather
(widespread cloud and precipitation systems) outside of
the deep tropics occurs along or near fronts as part
of extratropical cyclone systems.
The Earths rotation is very important to the formation of
fronts. The rotation of the Earth causes the wind that would
normally flow directly from one air mass to another to,
instead, flow around the air masses. This helps maintain
the air masses identity, as well as the front between the
airmasses.
What are Air Masses and Front?
In meteorology, an air mass is a volume of airdefined
by its temperature and water vapor content. Air
masses cover many hundreds or thousands of square