Chapter 8

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Prof. Jin-Yi Yu

Finding Fronts on Weather Maps

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•A warm, cold, and stationary front will be located on the warm edge of a shape temperature gradient.

•Lower dewpoint temperatures can sometime be found on the cold air side of a cold, warm, or stationary front.

•If the wind on the cold side blows toward the front, a cold front; away from the front, a warm front; along the front, a stationary front; sharp wind shift, a occluded front.

Not a boundary between air masses, but boundary between air coming from Canada and the Rockies.

è Cold air damming.