CLOUDS
Mid-level cloud that have a puffy appearance and often appear as rows
altocumulus
Fog that occurs when wind heated by warm ocean water blows over cool ocean water
Sea fog
Liquid precipitation that freezes when it hits the ground or another substance
freezing rain
A general term for an air mass that forms over the ocean
Maritime
This type of air mass is cold and dry
Continental polar
A mackerel sky occurs when this type of cloud forms a pattern resembling fish scales
Cirrocumulus
The fog that occurs due to adiabatic cooling of upward-moving air
Upslope fog
Consists of large drops of liquid water
Rain
This type of front forms when a maritime polar air mass pushes into a continental tropical air mass
Cold front
This type of air mass forms over the Caribbean Sea
Maritime Tropical
The least common type of high-level clouds
Cirrocumulus
Brownish haze that develops as complex molecules are broken down into ozone and other harmful substances
Photochemical smog
Ice crystals usually in geometric shapes
Snow
The boundary between two air masses of different temperatures.
Front
The type of air mass a frontal cyclone usually begins with
Stationary front
A cloud with a low-level base and a top composed of ice crystals
Cumulonimbus
A brief but intense snowfall
Blizzard
Layers of glaze and rime
hail
Two unmoving air masses of different temperatures form this type of front
Stationary
Increases the rate of condensation
Cool temperatures
A lens-shaped cloud that often forms near mountains
Lenticular
Raindrops that freeze on their way to the ground
Sleet
The process in which rain forms from melted snowflakes
Bergeron-Findeisen process
When a cold front takes over a warm front
An occluded front
The process through which frost forms
Deposition