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Chapter 8
midlatitude cyclones
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Geography
Undergraduate 1
04/24/2013
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Term
Cold Fronts
 Definition
  • form when cold air displaces warm air steeply upward
  • associated with heavy, brief rain & rapid temperature drops
  • also associated with cumulonimbus clouds 
Term
Warm Fronts
 Definition
  • warm (usually moist) air moves aloft over cool (usually dry) air
  • associated with light, steady precipitation from stratus clouds
Term
Stationary Fronts
 Definition
  • two unlike air masses remaining side by side, with neither encroaching
  • identified by temperature differences on either side of front  
  • warmer air may be displaced above cooler air
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