Air masses and fronts
How many fronts are there
What is 4
What does mP stand for
What is maritime polar
What is a Surface Current
What is a horizontal, streamlike movement of water that are found on the surface of an ocean
movement of the ocean water found far bellow the surface
what is a deep current
What causes El Nino
what is change in the location of warm and cold surface water
What is an air mass
What is a large volume of air
What does cT stand for
What is continental tropical
How deep can they go
What is several hundred meters deep
what are movements of deep currents controlled by
what is density
What causes El nina
what is surface water changes temperature in the eastern pacific comes unusually warm
What kind of weather do cold air fronts give off
What is cold, and dry
What does mT stand for
What is maritime tropical
What are the 3 factors that affect surface currents
global winds, the coriolis effect, and the continental deflections
density of the ocean is dependent on
what is temperature and salinity
Earths rotation also affects what
what is the paths of surface currents
What kind of weather do warm fronts give off
What is clear, warm weather
What does cP stand for
What is continental polar
What does the coriolis affect do
what is the deflection of moving objects because of the earths rotation
How do deep ocean current form
what is density of ocean water increasing and it sinks toward the bottom of the ocean
wind of water moving from the equator to the poles is ______ east
what is deflected
What are the four main kinds of air fronts
What is cold fronts, warm fronts, occluded fronts, and stationary fronts
How are they shown on weather maps
What is two letter symbols
What does global winds do
What is winds blow across the earths ocean pushing water across earths surface
What are the main deep currents in the ocean
what is antarctic bottom water, north atlantic deep water, north atlantic ocean
The diffrence in speed causes the _______ affect
what is coriolis