What Is Frontogenesis?
The process that makes a front stronger by squeezing warm and cold air closer together. It can create narrow bands of heavy snow or rain. In technical terms: An increase in the magnitude of the horizontal potential temperature gradient following the flow, from deformation, convergence and tilting; associated with thermally direct ageostrophic circulations and mesoscale precipitation banding.
Frontogenesis In Plain English
The process that makes a front stronger by squeezing warm and cold air closer together. It can create narrow bands of heavy snow or rain.
The Technical Definition
An increase in the magnitude of the horizontal potential temperature gradient following the flow, from deformation, convergence and tilting; associated with thermally direct ageostrophic circulations and mesoscale precipitation banding.
