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What is an occluded front?

What is an occluded front? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (meteorology) An front that occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front at the surface and a temperature contrast exists between the advancing and retreating cold air masses.
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As the cold front reaches the warm front it forms an occluded front.
An occluded front usually extends northward from the frontal wave and moves across northern British Columbia.
The weather forecast called for an occluded front to move into the Sierras Sunday afternoon, the day we were to fly back to China Lake.
This frontal intersection is called an occluded front.
This means the warm air can be forced totally off the ground and this is called an occluded front.
In both types of occlusions, the occluded front has well defined vertical boundaries between the coldest air, the cool air, and the warm air.

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