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WeatherWise - Glossary


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  Orographic Rainfall: Enhanced rainfall as a result of moist air cooling as it crosses a mountain range.
  Occluded Front: The combination of warm and cold fronts as a cold front overtakes a warm front. The front develops during the later stages of the life cycle of a frontal depression and is so called because of the associated occluding (shutting off) the warm air from the Earth's surface.
  Ozone: A form of oxygen which has three atoms instead of the usual two. In the troposphere, ozone is a pollutant. In the stratosphere, ozone filters out harmful ultraviolet radiation.



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