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What effect do the Rocky Mountains have on air masses that originate in the Gulf of Mexico?
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Describe the effect that air masses can have on climate and give an example?
Air masses affect climate in the same way mountains or mountain barriers do.
Where are the source regions for the Maritime tropical air masses that affect North America?
The source region for the maritime tropical air mass originate over the warm waters of the southern Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
What does the word mountains mean?
Mountains are large high land masses.
What effect describes the climatic process by which mountains force moisture from passing air masses by leaving the downwind side of a mountain range drier than the upwind side?
Rain Shawdow Effect
Which is not an area where the maritime tropical air masses that affect north America originate?
The Hudson Bay is not an area where the maritime tropical air masses that affect north America originate.
Why do the rocky mountains contribute to the development of tornadoes over central US?
Dry air masses come off the Rocky Mountains as a result of the rain shadow effect. When this plows into warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico it creates a dry line. The dry air lifts the less dense moist air, which triggers powerful thunderstorms. These thunderstorms have the potential to produce tornadoes.
Air masses originate in polar and subtropical?
high-pressure belts
What grows on the rocky mountains?
Chocolate grows in the masses
What is masses effect on gravity?
It is masses that cause gravity in the first place.
The meeting of which air masses causes thunderstorms in the spring?
Some maritime tropical air masses originate in the subtropical Pacific Ocean, where it is warm and air must travel a long distance over water. These rarely extend north or east of southern California. Some maritime tropical air masses originate over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. They can be associated with fog and low clouds as they moves northward. In the spring and summer, this air mass accounts for the thunderstorms in the Great Plains and elsewhere.
What landform are formed by the crashing of tow land masses?
Two land masses crunching together will form mountains E.g. Himalayas
What are the origins of different tornado air masses?
Tornadoes in the United States are generally associated with collisions of air masses. In mmany cases there is a warm, moist air mass that originates over the Gulf of Mexico. This meets a cool air mass from Canada, a warm, dry air mass from the Rocky Mountains, or both.
