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Air mass |
A huge body of air that has similar temperature,humidity and air preasure at any given height. |
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tropical air mass |
A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air preasure. |
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polar air mass |
A cold air mass that forms north of 50 north latitude or south of 50 south lattitude and has high 0air preasures. |
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maritime air mass |
A humid air mass that forms over ocean |
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continental air mass |
A dry air mass that forms over land |
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front |
the boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix |
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occluded |
cut off as the front where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses |
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cyclone |
A swirling center of low air preasure |
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anticyclone |
a high preasure center of dry air |
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meteorologist |
scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it |
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isotherm |
a line on a weather map that joins places tht have th same |
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iosbar |
aline on the water map that joins places that have the same air preasure |
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stroms |
a violet disurbance in the atomosphere |
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tornados |
A rapidly whirling funnel-shaped cloudthat reachesdown to toch the earth surface |
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evacuate |
form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess. |
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thunderstorms |
a small storm often accompained by heavy precipitian and frequent thunder and lighting |
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hurricane |
A tropical strom that has winds of about 119kilomaeter per hour and higher |
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lighting |
a sudden spark or energy discharge causes when eletric charges jump between nerby clouds and the ground |
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storm surge |
a dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands |
