Slide up

In meteorology, sliding is understood as the pushing of two air masses of different temperatures and densities. Sliding takes place when warm air pushes itself over cold air.

If the warm air on the front side meets cold air at a low point, the warm air slides onto the cold air along a plane with a gradient of approx. 1: 100. Because of this slight incline, you can already see the approaching front more than 100 kilometers before the arrival of a warm front based on the onset of layered clouds . The sliding up is associated with prolonged land rain .

See also

• Baroclinity
• Vortex (fluid dynamics) # Vortex types
• Occlusion (meteorology)

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• Katja Bammel, Angelika Fallert-Müller, Ulrich Kilian, Sabine Klonk: The Brockhaus Weather and Climate: Phenomena, Forecast, Climate Change . Brockhaus, Mannheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-7653-3381-1 .