Air Masses and Fronts - CSPA Middle School•Whether an air mass is warm or cold depends on the...
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Air Masses and Fronts
Science
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Air Mass
• A large body of air with similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
• Air masses form over large land or water masses
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• Whether an air mass is warm or cold depends on the temperature over which the mass forms.
1. Tropical – warm air masses that form over the tropics.
2. Polar – cold air masses that form over the poles.
3. Maritime – air masses that form over the ocean (very humid)
4. Continental – form over land – (are dry)
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4 types of air masses
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Continental -
• Means land.
• A Continental air mass forms over land.
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Maritime -
• Means water.
• Maritime air masses form over water.
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Polar
• Polar means it forms over the poles.
• COLD!
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Tropical
• Form over the tropics (near the equator)
• WARM!!
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MAP TAP 2002-2003 Weather Fronts 8
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Fronts • Where air masses meet but do not mix due to
different temperatures and densities. becomes a front
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Fronts
• 4 kinds of fronts:
– Cold front
– Warm front
– Occluded front
– Stationary front
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Cold Front
• A cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass.
• Shown on a weather map by a blue line with triangles pointing the direction the cool air is moving.
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Cold Front
• Rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slowly moving warm air mass.
• The denser cold air slides under the lighter warm air pushing it upward.
• The rising air cools and condenses, forming clouds.
• Heavy rain or snow may fall.
• If the warm air mass contains only a little water vapor, there may be only cloudy skies.
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Fronts: Five Types of Fronts
1. Cold Front: The zone where cold air is replacing warmer air
• Air gets drier after a cold front moves through
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Cold Front
• Cold fronts move quickly and can cause abrupt weather changes including violent thunderstorms
• After a cold front passes through, cool, dry air moves in.
• Clear skies and cooler temperatures often follow.
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Warm Front
• Warm air mass collides with a slowly moving cooler air mass.
• Shown on a weather map by a red line with half circles pointing the direction the warm air is moving.
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Warm Front
• Moving warm air mass collides with a slowly moving cold air mass.
• The warm air moves over the denser cold air.
• If the warm air is humid, showers and light rain fall along the front where the warm and cold air meet.
• If the warm air is dry scattered clouds form.
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Fronts: Five Types of Fronts
2. Warm Front: The zone where warm air is replacing colder air
• Air gets more humid after a warm front moves through
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Warm Front
• Because warm fronts move more slowly than cold fronts, the weather may be rainy or foggy for several days.
• After the warm front passes, the weather is likely to be warm and humid.
• In winter, warm fronts bring snow.
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Comparing Warm and Cold Fronts
• Cold fronts move faster than warm fronts.
• The weather activity in a cold front is often violent and happens directly at the front.
• Cold fronts have sudden gusty winds high in the air creating turbulence.
• The weather activity in a warm front generally happens before the front passes.
• In a warm front the cloud formation is very low often creating situations of poor visibility.
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Occluded Fronts
• When a warm front is trapped by 2 cold fronts.
• Shown on a weather map by a purple line with alternating triangles and semicircles pointing the direction the front is moving.
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Occluded Fronts • A warm air mass is caught between two
cooler air masses.
• The denser cool air masses move underneath the less dense warm air and push it upward.
• The temperature near the ground becomes cooler.
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Occluded Fronts
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• The warm air mass is cut off, or occluded, from the ground.
• As the warm air cools and its water vapor condenses, the weather may turn cloudy and rainy or snowy.
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Fronts: Five Types of Fronts
4. Occluded Front: Formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front
• This occurrence usually results in storms over an area
• In U.S., the colder air usually lies to the west
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Stationary Fronts
• A front that stops moving or is moving very slowly.
• Shown on a weather map with alternating red semicircles pointing away from the warm air and blue triangles pointing away from the cold air.
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Stationary Fronts
• Sometime cold and warm air masses meet, but neither has enough force to move the other.
• They meet in a “standoff”
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Stationary Fronts
• Where the warm and cool air meet, water vapor in the air condenses into rain, snow, fog, or clouds.
• It may stall over an area and bring many days of clouds and precipitation.
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Fronts: Five Types of Fronts
3. Stationary Front: When either a cold or warm front stops moving
• When the front starts moving again it returns to either being a cold or warm
front
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Locate the 4 types of fronts on this weather map.
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Cold Fronts
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Warm Front
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Stationary Front
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Occluded Front
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Be a Weather Forecaster
You are planning to travel to Alabama in 2 days. The high temperature there for today is 68º F.
Use the map to help you predict whether the temperature in Alabama will increase, decrease, or stay the same. Explain why you think so.
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There is a cold front approaching. The temperatures will probably be cooler behind the front.
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Be a Weather Forecaster
• Of course, meteorologists (weather forecasters) use much more data than fronts and air masses to help them forecast the weather more accurately. But any forecast is just a prediction of what might happen. Even with the best data, weather forecasts can be wrong.