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Weather Observation and Analysis John Nielsen-Gammon Course Notes These course notes are copyrighted. If you are presently registered for ATMO 251 at Texas A&M University, permission is hereby granted to download and print these course notes for your personal use. If you are not registered for ATMO 251, you may view these course notes, but you may not download or print them without the permission of the author. Redistribution of these course notes, whether done freely or for profit, is explicitly prohibited without the written permission of the author. Chapter 13. FRONTS AND FRONTOGENESIS Fronts as Temperature Gradients Fronts were first discovered during World War I, and the name was adopted by analogy to the fronts of battle during the war. Until data from a Weather network covering a significant hunk of territory was regularly transmitted and plotted at a central location, it was difficult to recognize the patterns behind the sudden Weather changes at different stations.
really narrow tongues of stratospheric air being dragged down into the troposphere. In a cross section, the high stratification within an upper-level front connects directly with the high stratification within the stratosphere, and aircraft observations have confirmed the presence of stratospheric ozone levels within upper-level fronts.
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