Global Winds
Polar Easterlies blow from ____________ to _______________
What is East to West?
Describe the symbol for a cold front.
What is blue triangles.
What type of weather will a Continental Tropical air mass bring?
What is Hot dry weather?
Local winds blow over___________ distances.
Short
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is barometer.
Prevailing Westerlies blow from ___________ to ____________.
What is West to East.
A place where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
Maritime means....
water
This type of local wind occurs at night.
What is land breeze
A narrow band of fast moving winds at the top of the troposphere and the bottom of the stratosphere. As it moves, it also moves air masse and affects weather conditions.
What is jet stream?
This global wind pushes air masses/fronts/weather across the U.S
What is the Prevailing Westerlies.
What type of weather will a cold front bring?
This type of air mass forms over the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Maritime Tropical?
What is sea breeze?
Weather instrument that measures wind speed.
What is anemometer?
This area is very calm and has little to no wind.
What is doldrum.
This type of front occurs when a warm air mass is cut off from the ground by 2 cold air masses.
What is occluded front?
This air mass forms over Canada.
What is Continental Polar.
This local wind causes cool air to rush towards land during the day.
What is Sea Breeze.
What causes wind?
differences in air pressure caused by unequal heating of Earth's surface.
This type of front is slow moving and brings several days of cloudy weather/precipitation.
What is warm front?
Describe the weather for Maritime Polar.
Cold and humid air.
This type of local wind cause cool air to rush toward the ocean at night.
What is land breeze.
The tilt of the Earth on its axis causes winds to turn in different directions.
What is the Coriolis Effect?