GEOG 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Warm Front, Cold Front, Nimbostratus Cloud

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1101
• Professor: Scott Connelly

Document Summary

Geog lesson 17 (remember, we name winds for the direction they are coming from. Warm sector: has humid to very humid conditions, often with clear skies to scattered cumulus clouds. Here in the u. s. this is primarily mt air off the gulf of mexico. Precipitation may be associated with the advancing cold front. Cool sector: has humid to very humid conditions with a large area of stratus & nimbostratus clouds. Light to moderate precipitation along and ahead of the warm front. Mid-latitude wave cyclone is a low pressure cell that forms & moves along a frontal boundary. It exhibits counter-clockwise circulation (nh) around the low center and produces a wavelike deformation of the front. high pressure cells do not have frontal boundries. Stages of the wave cyclone life cycle: (3/4/5!!!!!! Stage 1: two air masses, a cold (cp or mp) & a warm (mt) are set-up along a stationary front & move parallel to it.