- Page Of 4 Zoom To 16 More Solar Energy Is Absorbed In The Tropics Than At The Poles As A Result The Earth S Surface 1 (97.05 KiB) Viewed 112 times
Page of 4 ZOOM + TO 16. More solar energy is absorbed in the tropics than at the poles. As a result, the Earth's surface is (cooler/warmer) near the poles and (cooler/warmer) at the equator. 17. The hot conditions at the equator warm air and cause it to The warm air travels north at high altitude where the air cools and near 30 latitude. This creates a circulation pattern where surface air flows away from 30°to the equator. 18. The combination of the Coriolis Effect, which influences the wind's and the pressure gradient, which produces wind generate Global Air Circulation. 19. Severe weather often associated with fronts, the boundaries between and warm air masses. Fronts accompany moist, unstable air rising up into the atmosphere where the air cools, condenses and eventually forms 20. Most severe cold fronts that can produce thunderstorms in the U.S. are the result of a air mass originating from the northern plains states colliding with a air mass moving northward from out of the Gulf of Mexico. 21. In a Front, a cold air s move more rapidly than an adjacent air mass, causing rapid lifting and displacement of the warm air. 22. In a Front, a warm air mass moves more rapidly than the adjacent air mass, and thus rises over the cold air mass, moist air to high altitudes, causing instability, 23. Advancing cold fronts rapidly lift condensation, precipitation and tornadoes. 24. Draw and label cross sections of both warm and cold fronts. Include air mass (cold and warm). direction of front, air movement, updraft, area of precipitation, thunderstorm or medium precipitation and cloud coverage.