Some aspects of the theory of fronts and frontal analysis

Abstract

SUMMARYFronts are considered as aspects of development and it is shown that their characteristics can be deduced without recourse to the traditional concept of air masses. The approach interprets the current practice of synoptic analysis in terms of dynamical theory and, as a corollary, affords the possibility of utilising automatic computational methods for the objective depiction of frontal zones and their associated weather.