Across
- 3. The leading edge of a relatively cold air mass.
- 4. A homogenous mass of air, the properties of which can be identified as having been established while the air was situated over a particular region of the earth's surface.
- 5. A wave in the major belt of westerlies which is characterized by large length and significant amplitude.
- 6. The visible aggregate of minute water droplets and/or ice particles in the atmosphere above the earths's surface.
- 7. The statistical collective of weather conditions over a specified period of time (i.e. usually several decades).
- 8. A closed isobaric circulation in the atmosphere, with counter-clockwise rotation in the northern hemisphere.
- 10. A sudden brief increase in wind speed.
- 11. Relatively strong winds concentrated within a narrow stream in the atmosphere.
- 12. A transition zone between two air masses of different density.
- 13. In meteorology, atmospheric motions that are predominantly vertical, i.e. usually means upward as opposed to subsidence (downward).
Down
- 1. An area of low atmospheric pressure having closed isobars. Used interchangeably with cyclone.
- 2. The transfer of energy within and through a conductor by means of molecular activity.
- 5. Winds, which over a small area, differ from those appropriate to the general pressure distribution.
- 7. The physical process by which a vapor becomes a liquid.
- 9. All the various visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms. It can be cloud to cloud, cloud to ground, or cloud to air.
- 12. Same as cloud except base of cloud is touching earth's surface.
