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Weather Systems

Looking Back: Air Masses and Fronts

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1. List the characteristcs that make for a good source region?

2. How are air mass classified?

3. Define "front".

4. Define "cold front" and "warm front".

5. What is a quasi-stationary front? Give an example.

 

 

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For Citation: Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.
2006. Date visited.  http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/title_page.html

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