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gfdl's home page > gfdl on-line bibliography > 1992: Encyclopedia of Earth System Science, 1, 201-216
Atmospheric fronts
| Orlanski, I., 1992: Atmospheric fronts. In Encyclopedia of Earth System Science, 1, Academic Press, Inc., 201-216. |
| Abstract: Atmospheric fronts are perhaps the most common phenomena appearing on weather maps and are commonly defined by a large temperature contrast across a narrow zone near the earth's surface. However, fronts are more than a simple division of air masses with different thermodynamic properties. Fronts are a crossroad for interaction between the lower and upper levels of the atmosphere. They also play an important role in the energetics of weather systems, serves as a major link for the interaction between cloud-scale phenomena and the larger planetary circulation, and act as efficient vehicles for the transport of chemical tracers into the upper atmosphere and over long distances. |