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This document discusses frontal depressions, including their origin, life cycle, and associated weather patterns. It explains that frontal depressions form at the boundary between polar and temperate air masses when winds are high, causing warm air to bulge into cold air. As the depression intensifies and moves east, it develops warm and cold fronts that sweep across areas, first bringing warm front weather and later cold front weather. The most severe weather occurs at the triple point where the warm and cold fronts meet at the surface.

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Frontal Depressions1

This document discusses frontal depressions, including their origin, life cycle, and associated weather patterns. It explains that frontal depressions form at the boundary between polar and temperate air masses when winds are high, causing warm air to bulge into cold air. As the depression intensifies and moves east, it develops warm and cold fronts that sweep across areas, first bringing warm front weather and later cold front weather. The most severe weather occurs at the triple point where the warm and cold fronts meet at the surface.

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THE FRONTAL DEPRESSIONS Introduction In the previous chapter we discussed the basic properties of fronts and studied what

type of weather changes come about due to frontal movement. In this chapter we will discuss another related phenomenon called the Frontal Depression. The structure of frontal depression was developed by Norwegian meteorologists, who evolved the frontal theory of depressions. This theory was validated by actual observations and was found that a depression may form and lead to frontal development but depressions are not frontal. The other types of depressions will be discussed in the next chapter. Origin. In the boundary of polar and temperate latitudes the air is blowing side by side. As discussed earlier this wind is easterly in the polar region and westerly in temperature region. So a stationary front is formed in between the two air masses. Now if the wind speed are high then a low may form in the cold region and cause the warm air bulge into the cold air mass. This is the birth of a depression. Life Cycle of a Frontal Depression. The frontal depression in its life cycle goes through the following steps:(a) A low formed in the cold region would cause the warm air to bulge . (b) The air would rush towards the low and a circulation would be set up. (c) The bulge would start to move with the general circulation and move towards east. (d) The bulge would continue to deepen and depression would intensify. (e) The depression would form two arms. In the leading arm, warm air would replace cold air so a warm front is formed. In the rear arm, cold air replaces warm air so a cold front is formed. The region in between the two arms is called the warm sector, which, in reality is the warm air that rushed into the bulge and formed the two fronts. (f) The passage of depression over an area would mean passage of a warm front, warm sector, and then cold front. (g) The cold front is moving at a faster speed so it will catch up with the warm front and occlusion would start. The occlusion would start from the depression and then move down. (h) As the occlusion develops the frontal depression would start to die out,

as all warm air would be lifted up. (i) The depression may be followed by a secondary depression. (j) These depressions would continue to develop, move and die out at the higher latitudes. Weather Associated with Frontal Depression. The weather associated with the depression would be frontal. Initially the warm front would give weather then warm sector would approach followed by cold front weather. In the warm sector, the weather is generally fine unless some local phenomena gives weather. The most severe weather is found where the two front meet at the surface. This point is called triple point and it receives a combined effect of warm and cold front.

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