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they both are over colder land but maritime polar is over water in cold areas and continental polar is over land and in colder areas.
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Why do a continental and a polar cause a tornado?
The terminology here is a bit confused. In weather there are 4 basic types of large-scale air mass: Continental polar air masses come off the land in cold regions and are cool and dry. Maritime polar masses come off the ocean and are cool and somewhat moist. Continental tropical air masses come of the land from warm regions and are warm and dry. Finally maritime tropical masses come off of warm oceans and are warm and moist. When a continental polar air mass pushes into a maritime tropical air mass it forms a cold front. Since cold air is denser than warm air, the tropical air mass is forced upwards. This can trigger thunderstorms. Under the right conditions these storms can produce tornadoes.
What do hot dry air moves into the southwest in summer from?
Maritime Polar
What can you say about the albedos of tropical and polar areas in general?
The darker the shade of the surface texture, the lower the albedo percentage. Antarctica for instance has an albedo around 60% changing seasonally. Due to the light colour, the surface reflects at a higher rate then a tropical forest. Tropical Forests are hot and humid due to the lack of moisture in the air due to the low amount of reflectivity and the high amount of heat absorbed. Albedos are the key to climate and global warming. Therefore Tropical places have albedos of low percentage. Due to the dark colour of the forests and shadows the trees form. Therefore Polar Areas have high albedos due to the light shade of white which is perfect for reflecting heat. Fresh Snow has a reflect rate of 90%.
Lies along the polar jet stream?
The su polar low lies along the polar jet stream :)
Which planet has the greatest polar flattening?
Saturn-with a polar flattening of 10.4%
What air mass brings cool humid weather Maritime tropical or polar or continental tropical or polar?
Maritime (marine for humid) Polar (cold/cool)
What are four types of air masses that affected the US?
maritime polar, continental polar, maritime tropical, and continental tropical
What are the main types of air masses?
Maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental polar, & continental tropical
What are the 4 types of Air Mass?
maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental polar, and continental tropical
What are natural massess?
continetal polar, maritime polar, continental tropical, and maritime tropical are the 4 air masses.
Continental polar maritime polar continental tropical and maritime tropical are types of?
Those are types of air masses.
What is the difference between maritime tropical and polar?
Compared to a maritime tropical airmass, a maritime polar airmass has lower temperature and less water vapor.
What are the 6 major air masses in the US?
I believe there are only 5 different air masses in the US: 1. Arctic Polar 2. Continental Polar 3. Maritime Polar 4. Continental Tropical 5. Maritime Tropical Hope this helped!
What are the 4 main types of air masses that affect weather?
maritime polar, maritime tropical, continental tropical, and continental polar
How are maritime polar and continental polar different?
Continental polar and continental tropical are alike in that they are dry air masses. The different between the two is that the continental polar is a cool air mass while the tropical is a very hot mass of air.
What is five types of air masses?
the four different types of air masses are continental polar,and tropical. maritime tropical, and polar. the 5 kinds ofair masses are: Cp: continental polar Ct: continental tropical Ca: continental artic Mp: maritime polar Mt: maritime tropical (Ma:maritime artic) maritime artic is much less common than the other air masses, because very cold air is less likely to be moist.
What is the four different air masses?
The 4 major air masses are continental polar (cP), continental tropical (cT), marine polar (mP) and marine tropical (mT). Generally, continental air masses are drier than marine air masses, and polar air masses are cooler than tropical air masses. cT air masses are relatively limited in distribution existing in the south west North America and North Africa.
