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Types of air masses mT –Maritime Tropical Warm Moist Air usually over tropical waters
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Chapter 29
Air Masses and Fronts
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Air Masses•A huge section of the lower troposphere that has the same kind of weather throughout
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Types of air masses•mT
–Maritime Tropical
Warm Moist Air usually over tropical waters
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•mP –Maritime Polar
Cold Humid air coming from over cold ocean waters
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•cT –Continental Tropical
Hot dry Air originating over desert areas
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•cP –Continental Polar
Cold dry air coming from high latitudes
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•cA –Continental Arctic
Extremely Cold dry air coming from high latitudes
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Fronts•Any Boundary between two different air masses
•Generally means a change in weather
•Four Types
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Cold Front
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Warm Front
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Stationary Front
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Occluded Front
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Where are the Fronts?
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Where are the Fronts?
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