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If you mean why does the air get warmer as the air pressure drops then that is an easily answered question. first we must look at what air pressure is, air pressure is the weight of air pushing down on the earth and when it goes down, the air must therefore be exerting less pressure on the earth and hence the air rises (vice versa for air pressure rise, the air is sinking and therefore exerting more pressure on the Earth's surface)

The air gets warmer as it rises as in a depression or anticyclone in the mid-latitudinal zone the air rises and is warmed by the tropical air mass, whether that air mass be tropical maritime or tropical continental, these air masses come from the Southern Hemisphere and the tropics, meaning the air in it is warm and so as air rises it is heated by this air mass. hope this has helped.

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