Air Masses & Fronts
Two factors of an air mass
What is moisture and temperature?
Capital H on a weather map
What is high pressure that brings happy, sunny weather?
The location of surface currents
What is near or at the surface of the ocean?
The location of deep currents
What is very far below the surface?
Definition of a front
What is where two or more air masses meet?
Capital L on a weather map
What is low pressure that brings gloomy, dreary weather?
The three factors that affect surface currents
What are global winds, the Coriolis effect, and continental deflections?
The factor that controls deep currents
What is water density?
Weather that maritime polar (mP) air masses bring to the Pacific Coast during winter
What is rain and snow?
Curved line with red semi circles on one side
What is a warm front?
The reason why surface currents travel in curved paths
What is the Earth’s rotation on its axis?
The two factors water density is affected by
What is temperature and salinity?
Weather that warm fronts bring
What is warm fair weather?
Curved line with blue triangles on one side
What is a cold front?
Direction of winds near the equator
What is mostly east to west?
The denser of the following: colder or warmer and less salty and salty
What is colder and salty?
The four kinds of fronts
What are cold, warm, occluded, and stationary fronts?
Curved line with red semi circles and blue triangles on either side
What is a stationary front?
Where the Gulf Stream flows from and to
What is Florida to Iceland?
The amount of water the East Australian Current transports
What is 40 million cubic meters of water?