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8 - Concluding Remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2017

Mankin Mak
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Frontogenesis is an integral part of cyclogenesis. Fronts are embedded in extratropical cyclones and are also sites of severe weather elements. Fronts are a product of scale-interaction involving planetary, synoptic and meso scale components of the flow in a dry model setting. The meso and small-scale components in a moist model front have additional important impacts of condensational heating upon frontogenesis. Fronts play the role of an essential link in the global cascade of energy. The ubiquitous cyclone-front-convection systems in the atmosphere have a high degree of disorderliness and therefore lead to maximization of its total entropy. It is fitting to metaphorically think of surface fronts and upper-level front as “Wrinkles in the weather’s face” and “Veil in the sky” respectively.
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  • Concluding Remarks
  • Mankin Mak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Atmospheric Frontal Dynamics
  • Online publication: 03 November 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316459584.009
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  • Concluding Remarks
  • Mankin Mak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Atmospheric Frontal Dynamics
  • Online publication: 03 November 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316459584.009
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  • Concluding Remarks
  • Mankin Mak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book: Atmospheric Frontal Dynamics
  • Online publication: 03 November 2017
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316459584.009
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