Science Air
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
AIR MASS
- A large body of air with a similar
- temperature, pressure, and humidity.
- An air mass can be hot, warm, cold,
- cool, delending on the tepmerature
- of land or body of water it formed kver
Photo by Turinboy
WARM AIR MASS
- A body of air that forms over
- a warm region on earth.
- It has a gentle frontal slope and layered stratus clouds
- It produces light precipitation over a long period of time.
Photo by kevin dooley
COLD AIR MASS
- A body of air that forms over a cold
- region on earth. It has a steep frontal slope
- And cumulus clouds develop vertically
- It produces storms and heavy precipitation
- over a short period of time.
Photo by Werner Kunz
FRONT
- The boundry between air
- masses of different temperature
- pressure, and density.
Photo by ecstaticist
HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM
- Created by cold sinking air and winds
- that rotate counter-clockwise, the opposite
- direction of the earths rotation.
Photo by kevin dooley
LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
- Created by warm aur rising and winds
- That rotate counter-clockwise, the same direction
- as the earth.
Photo by blmiers2
DEWPOINT
- The measure of humidity
- in the air at which dew will
- start to form. Dew point is given
- In terms of temperature.
Photo by ecstaticist
