Air Mass Abbreviations
What is m?
Maritime
What kind of front is created by a boundary between a mass of warm air and a retreating mass of cold air?
Warm front
What kind of weather does a mP air mass bring?
Moist and cold
Two examples of local winds.
What are Land & Sea Breezes
How are air masses formed?
Uneven heating and cooling of the Earth by the sun
What is c?
Continental
What kind of front comes from an advancing mass of relatively cold air that replaces a warmer mass of air?
Cold front
What kind of weather does a cA air mass bring?
This causes wind to blow fast.
What is Convection?
Name the four types of fronts
Warm, cold, occluded, stationary
What is A?
Arctic
What kind of front occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front and forces it upwards? (The cold front is trapped between two warm masses.)
Occluded front
What kind of weather does a mT air mass bring?
Which cools off faster, Land or Water?
What is Land.
What kind of front is represented on a weather map by a purple line with triangles and semicircles?
Occluded front
What is T?
Tropical
What type of front forms when two air masses push against each other and neither is strong enough to move the other?
Stationary front
What are kind of weather is brought by a cP air mass?
Dry and cold
The results of unequal heating of the earth's surface?
What is wind?
What kind of front is represented on a weather map by repeating red semicircles and blue triangles?
Stationary front
What is P?
Polar
How are fronts formed?
Fronts are formed at the boundary of two air masses with different temperatures and humidity that collide.
What kind of weather is brought by a cT air mass?
Dry and warm
Some energy from the Sun is absorbed or reflected back into the atmosphere,
What is true, yes
How many major jet streams travel the globe?
4