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| What Norwegian Scientists In The Early 20th Century Developed The Polar Front Theory? |
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| Vilhelm and Jacob Bjerknes |
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| What Does The Polar Front Theory Explain? |
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| Formation, Growth and Dissipation of Midlatitude Cyclones |
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| What is the standard explanation for the life cycle of midlatitude cyclones? |
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| List The Steps To Midlatitude Cyclone Evolution |
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Incipient
Mature
Dissipation |
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| What Is Another Name For The Incipient Stage? |
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| What is the Dissipation Stage Associated With? |
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| What do both midlatitude and anticyclones depend on? |
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| Close Interaction Of Processes In The Upper and Lower Troposphere |
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| The decreasing vorticity immediately downwind of the Rossby Wave through the axis. |
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| What Leads To The Formation Of Cyclones At The Surface? |
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| What help form Rossby Waves? |
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| Fronts associated with midlatitude cyclones |
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| What creates upper level convergence and divergence? |
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| Is the interaction between the upper and lower atmosphere during midlatitude cyclones constant or inconsistent? |
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| What Favors The Existence Of Troughs In The Middle And Upper Troposphere? |
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| Dense Air Behind Cold Fronts |
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| What Creates Surface Areas Of Low And High Pressure? |
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| Patterns Of Divergence And Convergence |
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| There is a reduction in distance between cold and warm fronts when midlatitude cyclones migrate where? |
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| Occlusion Eventually Develops When What Occurs? |
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| A reduction in distance between cold and warm fronts. |
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| Surface Cyclones And Anticyclones Migrate In The Direction Of What? |
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| Midtropospheric Winds Of Rossby Waves |
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| What Is The Pressure Of Midtropospheric Winds Of Rossby Waves? |
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| Cyclones move from regions of upper level divergence or upper level convergence? |
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| Cyclones move to regions of upper level divergence or upper level convergence? |
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| What Does Upper Level Divergence Do? |
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| Maintain Or Intensify The Surface Low Pressure |
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| What Does Upper Level Convergence Do? |
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| What Does The Conveyor Belt Model Of Midlatitude Cyclones Explain? |
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| Midlatitude Cyclone Airflow As The Result Of Three Separate Streams, Or Conveyor Belts. |
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| Where Does The Cold Conveyor Belt Flow? |
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| Toward The Center Of Low Pressure Ahead Of The Warm Front. |
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| What Produces A Wide Band Of Cloud Cover? |
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| Cold Conveyor Belt Approaching Low Pressure and Warm Conveyor Belt flowing ahead of Cold Front. |
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| What Happens When The Cold Conveyor Belt Approaches Low Pressure? |
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| The Cold Conveyor Belt Rises, causing adiabatic cooling. |
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| What Turns Anticyclones Near The Center Of Low Pressure And Join The Upper-Level Westerly Flow? |
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| Warm And Cold Conveyor Belts |
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| What Kind Of Conveyor Belt Flows Above The Cold Front? |
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| Dry In The Middle Atmosphere |
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| What are Anticyclones Marked By? |
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Slowly Descending Air
Favoring Clear Skies |
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| What has Climate Change Caused? |
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| A Poleward Shift In The Mean Position Of Storm Tracks |
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| What Will The Poleward Shift In The Mean Position Of Storm Tracks Alter? |
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| Precipitation Distribution In Parts Of The World |
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| Midlatitude Cyclones Develop In What Areas, That Set Where They Form Apart From Tropical Storms? |
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| Defined zones associated with different air masses. |
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| Where Do Midlatitude Cyclones Get Their Energy? |
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| Differences In Temperature and Humidity |
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| Tropical Cyclones Get Their Heat From Where? |
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| The Surface Of Water and Thunderstorms |
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| What Are The Six Stages Of Midlatitude Cyclones? |
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Stationary Polar Front
Cyclogenesis
Mature Cyclone
Beginning Of Occlusion
Occulsion
Dissipation |
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| Divergence Aloft, leads to what pressure at the surface? |
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| Divergence Aloft, leading to low pressure at the surface, leads to what? |
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| Convergence At The Surface, from Divergence Aloft Leads To What? |
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| The Upward Movement Of Air |
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| Convergence Aloft, leads to what pressure at the surface? |
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| Convergence Aloft, leading to high pressure at the surface, leads to what? |
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| Divergence At The Surface, from Convergence at the Surface Leads To What? |
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| The Downward Movement Of Air |
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| What Is Atmospheric Continuity? |
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| The Atmosphere's Constant Balancing Act |
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| What Causes A Stationary Front To Take On Cyclogenesis? |
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| As Pressure Gets Lower, What Happens To Pressure Gradient? |
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| If A New Low Is Going To Form, It Is Going To Form At What Point? |
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