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