ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100

MIDLATITUDE WEATHER SYSTEMS
PART I: THE SETTING, AIR MASSES & FRONTS

Summer 2004


Lecture #19 Scheduled for:

19 JUL 2004 (M)

Recommended Readings from Moran (2002):

pages 221-229; 189-190.


Today's Lecture Objectives:


Outline:

A. SCOPE OF MIDLATITUDES

B. AIR MASSES

C. FRONTS or FRONTAL ZONES

Unit continues as Midlatitude Weather Systems: The Extratropical Cyclone


Links to Other References:

The Air masses and fronts module from Weather World 2010 (Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign).


Latest revision: 3 August 2004 (0400 UTC)

Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706
hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu


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