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Mt is...
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Marine tropical, moist warm air
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Mp is...
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Marine Polar, cold moist air
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Cp
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Continental Polar, Cold, dry air
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Ct
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Continental tropical, Dry, warm air
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Warm fronts are associated with what wether pattern? and what do they look like?
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Drizzle, and half circles
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What are the four numbers types in a weather station diagram and where are they located?
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Temp-top left, Dew point-bottom left, Barametric air pressure-top right, Pressure change-bottom right
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Explain all of the characteristics of a high pressure and a low pressure system.
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H: anticyclone, clockwise, diverging winds, clear skies
L:Cyclone, counterclockwise, converging winds, stormy weather |
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Cold fronts are associated with what weather pattern and what do they look like?
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Stormy, heavy down pour, and they are triangles
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What are the Koppen classification system sub categories and their letters.
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A: Tropical
B: airid, semi airid (dessert) C: Mesothermal (Humid subtropical, Mediteranean) D:Microthermal (Humid Continental and Subarctic) E:Polar H:Highlands |
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What is an occluded front and what does it look like?
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When a cold front takes over a warm front. Half cirlces and triangles on one side
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What is a stationary front and what does it look like?
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When neither fronts take over each other. Half circles and triangles on opposite sides
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What are LACEMOPS
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L: Latitude
A:Air Masses C:Continentiality E: Elevation M: Mountain Barriers O: Ocean Currents P:Pressure and prevailing winds S:Storms |
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Winward and leeward side of the mountain
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Before or facing the mountain (Gets much more rain), and after or behind the mountain (Gets little rain at all)
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The closer the temp and dew point are,
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The more humid it is
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Wind is measured in...
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Knots
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