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    The document discusses different types of frontal systems and boundaries including cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts, and occluded fronts. It explains that cold fronts move faster than warm fronts and have less cloud cover. The document also notes that mid-latitude cyclones start as frontal waves that can develop into more mature systems with closing warm sectors and eventual occlusion of the warm air. Finally, it compares air meeting at 60 degrees latitude versus 0 degrees latitude, noting that low pressure draws air toward both but 60 degrees features jet streams while 0 degrees has the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

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    The document discusses different types of frontal systems and boundaries including cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts, and occluded fronts. It explains that cold fronts move faster than warm fronts and have less cloud cover. The document also notes that mid-latitude cyclones start as frontal waves that can develop into more mature systems with closing warm sectors and eventual occlusion of the warm air. Finally, it compares air meeting at 60 degrees latitude versus 0 degrees latitude, noting that low pressure draws air toward both but 60 degrees features jet streams while 0 degrees has the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

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    Cold Front - Warm Front

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    Dacia Higgins
    The document discusses different types of frontal systems and boundaries including cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts, and occluded fronts. It explains that cold fronts move faster than warm fronts and have less cloud cover. The document also notes that mid-latitude cyclones start as frontal waves that can develop into more mature systems with closing warm sectors and eventual occlusion of the warm air. Finally, it compares air meeting at 60 degrees latitude versus 0 degrees latitude, noting that low pressure draws air toward both but 60 degrees features jet streams while 0 degrees has the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

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    Cold front

    Advanced

    More unstable

    Move faster

    Cloudy

    Warm front

    Steeper slope

    Less unstable

    Moves fast because of the undercut taken by the cold front

    Little to no cloud

    Mid-latitude cyclone

    Stationary front

    Frontal wave developed

    Open wave (warm sector id not that small)

    Mature wave (warm sector is closing a little aka initial occlusion)

    Advanced occlusion

    Warm air is completely dissolved/ lifted away

    How weather will change as it passes over

    Eastward direction

    Warm air steep

    Cold air less sleep (advancing into the warm sector)

    Warm front

    cold front

    cold sector
    occluded front

    warm sector is now being lifted up

    explain one similarity and three difference between air meeting at 60 degrees and air meeting at 0
    degrees.

    Similarity- air moves toward both latitudes (low pressure)

    Difference- jet stream at 60 degrees and itcz at 0 degrees

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