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Air streams tend to contain relatively narrow ranges of potential temperature and wet bulb potential temperature w peculiar R isentropic analyses for synoptic scale weather systems tend to show well defined air streams which are identified by nam. nwsnoaagovdirectives OPR W OS23 C Sims Certified by W OS23 C Abelman Type of Issuance Routine SUMMARY OF REVISIONS Supersedes NWS Instruction 10 812 Aviation Wind and Temperature Aloft Forecasts dated October 19 200 Changes include OPR Certifier an Spring . 2014. Professor Brian Ancell. T/. Th. . 11:00am . – . 12:20pm MCOM 265. ATMO 1300 – Overview. Atmospheric Science is the study of . weather. (e.g. thunderstorms, hurricanes, cold fronts) and . Front: a boundary between 2 air masses. Warm air and cold air do not mix well.. Changes in weather occur along fronts.. 4 Types of fronts:. Cold Front. Warm front. Stationary front. Occluded front. 1. Cold Front. Chapter 2.2 Guided Notes. What is Weather?. Weather is the condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place.. What is Wind. ?. Wind is air moving across the surface of the Earth. It can move horizontally or parallel to the ground.. An . air mass. is a . large . pool of air having similar temperature and moisture . characteristics. . An air mass occupies thousands of square miles of the Earth's surface. Air masses are . created . :. Radiosondes, Dropsondes and Driftsondes. Kate Young & Junhong Wang. NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. National Center for . Atmospheric Research. Weather/Climate. Societal Impacts. Pollution/Air Chemistry. 1. An air mass is a wide-spread section of the troposphere with uniform . temperature . and . humidity . (moisture). 2. The source region is the geographic location the air mass developed over. . If air settles over one location for a long time, it develops the characteristic temperature and moisture of the area.. Connecting the Weather. Air Masses. Fronts. Jet Stream. Quiz. Midweek Seminars. Meteorology – Jet Streams Fronts and Air Masses. Air Masses. A mass . of air takes on Temperature and Moisture from where the . A large body of air having nearly uniform conditions of temperature and humidity at any given altitude.. Warm air. forms over . tropical. regions near the equator. . . T- Tropical. . Cold air. . Mr. Ross Brown. Brooklyn School for Law and Technology. How do we understand the weather?. 4 January 2015. Do now: Take out your Reference Tables.. What is the . dewpoint. when the dry-bulb temperature is 24°C and the wet-bulb temperature is 15°C. Model Development and Evaluation. Rohit . Mathur, Jia Xing, Daiwen Kang, Christian Hogrefe, Jonathan Pleim. Computational Exposure Division. National Exposure Research Laboratory. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. . Movements of Air Masses and Fronts are vital to our . understanding. and . prediction. of Weather Systems. . Weather Forecasting. requires that we understand. :. Cyclones (. L. =Lows) and Anticyclones (. Weather Maps. Storms. Weather Maps. Weather Stations. Show the following data. in a concise way:. . - cloud cover. . - wind direction. . - wind speed. . - temperature. . - precipitation. . air masses.. . An . Air Mass. is an immense body of air, some 1600+ km (~1000mi) across and 1-3 km (~.6 to 1.9mi) thick, with relatively homogeneous physical properties (density, T. . and moisture) at a given altitude..