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Title: DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONE
Caption: (d) The cold front advances faster than the warm front, catches up with the warm front, and displaces the warm air upward. (After Lutgens, F. K., and Tarbuck, E. J. 2007. The atmosphere; An introduction to meteorology, 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall)
Keywords: atmosphere, midlatitude cyclones, middle-latitude cyclones, air masses, cyclogenesis, warm fronts, cold fronts, occluded fronts