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Basics

Worksheet: Warm and cold fronts

Sheet 3: Warm fronts

 

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Exercise:

The following animation and picture show the passage of a warm front.

Have a close look at the animation and  fill the gaps in the cloze.

 

Animation of a warm front, author: Dr. Horst Rudolf, university of Bielefeld in cooperation with his pupils
source: http://www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/klima/medio/bilder/wfront.gif

 

Animation of a warm front, author: Dr. Horst Rudolf, university of Bielefeld in cooperation with his pupils
source: http://www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/klima/medio/bilder/wfront.gif

 Here are the missing words for the following text:

Warmer, colder, air mass, lifts up, warm, cold, move slowly, settling over the cold front, air, in front of them, warmer and more humid, cirrus clouds

Warm fronts:

Warm fronts occur, when a ......................air mass approaches a ...............................
The warmer air ....................... and over the colder air.

.................fronts are usually more gentle than ..............fronts, ................................, gently ..................................................and moving it out of the way.

Precipitation at warm fronts are usually less heavy although more extensive (300-400 km), than at the cold fronts. The .................behind a warm front is warmer and more moist than the air ahead of it.

Warm fronts bring more steady, lighter rain or snow ………………………, which can last from a few hours to several days. When a warm front passes through, the air becomes noticeably ...................................than it was before.

The first signs of the warm front are the ..........................., followed by the cirrostratus, altostratus, nimbocumulus and stratocumulus types of clouds.

 

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- last update: 08.09.03

 

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