Air Masses and fronts
How many fronts are there
What is 4
mT stands for what air mass
What are Maritime Tropical air masses
Controls all surface currents
What is wind
deep currents are controled by what?
What is depth
What Does the coriolis effect, affect
What is the curve of wind and water
What type of weather do cold fronts bring
What is extreme stormy weather
Maritime air masses form over what
What is water
Horizontal streamlike movements of water
What are surface currents
Salt and tempature affects what factor of deep currents
What is depth
Surface currents help move what?
What is heat
Dry and warm weather comes from which air mass
What are Continental Tropical air masses
What air masses are found over low latitude areas
What are tropical air masses
When the stream of water changes due to something blocking its path
What is continental deflection
Cold what makes the water more what?
What is denser
This happens when cold nutrient rich water from the deep ocean replaces the warm surface water
What is upwelling
Where does most of the cold winter weather come from in the United states
What are polar air masses
Found over Dry areas of land
What are continental air masses
A surface current that flows west to east
What is the Gulf stream
Increesing salinity in the water make the water what?
What is denser
This sometimes follows El Nino
What is La Nina
What type of weather comes from stationary fronts
What is cloudy wet weather
How are air masses shown on a weather maps
What are two letter symbols
How deep can surface currents be
What is 50 to 100 meters deep
The deepest and densist current current
Antartic bottom water
The change in the location of warm and cool surface water
What is El Nino