Disequilibrium: The Connection Between Weather and Air Masses

by: Todd Hoover

This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s column helps explain how air masses flow from regions of high pressure to low pressure, causing weather at a fixed location to change over time as well as how sudden changes in weather can result when different air masses collide. This particular lesson focuses on wind and touches on tornadoes.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2018Stock # ss18_042_02_10Volume 042Issue 02

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