MET 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Occluded Front, Thermosphere, Westerlies
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The dominant winds that move across the usa. Movement of air from land to sea at night, created when cooler, denser air from the land forces up warmer air over the sea. Sea breeze movement of air from sea to land during the day when cooler air from above the water moves over the land, forcing the heated, less dense air above the land to rise. Occluded front a front where a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses and brings cool temperatures and large amounts of rain and snow. Stationary front when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and no movement occurs. This is the main movement of heat in weather systems. It is the movement caused within a fluid or gas by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity.
