Air masses and fronts
A very large volume of air that has a certain temperature and moisture content.
What is an air mass?
A map that shows the weather in a certain area.
What is a weather map?
Horizontal, streamlike movements of water that are found at or near the surface of the ocean.
What are surface currents?
Movements of ocean water far below the surface.
What are deep currents?
An air mass that is wet and warm.
What is maritime tropical(mT)?
The symbol that indicates high atmospheric pressure on a weather map.
What is H?
The process that makes surface currents change direction, related to the continents.
What is continental deflection?
The one force that controls deep ocean currents.
What is density?
The place where two or more air masses meet.
What is a front?
Represented on a weather map with a curved line with triangles coming out of it.
What is a cold front?
Winds that blow across the surface of the earth, often causing surface currents.
What are global winds?
Can increase by decreasing temperatures and increased salinity.
What is ocean density?
When a warm air mass moves in over a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
Represented on a weather map with a curved line with half-circles coming out of it.
What is a warm front?
The specific name of the effect of earth's rotation on the current's.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The process of cold water from the deep ocean replacing warm surface water.
What is upwelling?
When a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
Represented on a weather map with a curved line with half-circles AND triangles coming out of it.
What is a stationary front?
The direction winds mostly blow at the equator.
What is east to west?
The deepest and densest water in the ocean.
What is the Antarctic Bottom Water?