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What is the general definition of a front?
How do fronts affect the weather?
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Describe the
3-dimensional nature of a front.
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Describe what we mean when we say that a front is
an area of lower pressure.
Describe convergence at a front.
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Describe
the general
characteristics of a front.
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How do we determine whether a frontal boundary is
a cold front, a warm front, or a stationary front?
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Animation of cold front
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Imagine a cold front and three cities: one on the
warm side, one on the cold side, and one on the front. Describe the
weather for each of these cities.
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Now start with the city on the warm side.
Describe how the weather would change over the next 24 hours.
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Video--cold front time-lapse
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Imagine a warm front and three cities: one on the
warm side, one on the cold side, and one on the front. Describe the
weather for each of these cities.
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Now start with the city on the cold side.
Describe how the weather would change over the next 24 hours.
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Compare when the weather changes at the surface
for a cold front and a warm front.
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Describe and compare the 3-dimensional
frontal boundaries at a cold front and a warm front.
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Describe the
different weather possibilities at a stationary front
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Describe
an occluded front.
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Describe overrunning.
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Briefly describe an occluded
front. What does an occluded front tell us about the system?
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Describe a trough. Why isn’t a trough a front?
What usually happens to troughs?
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Study help--Air
masses and
fronts