What happens when air from the pacific ocean goes over the coastal mountians to the east?
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It gradually cools, and can hold less moisture, therefore it rains.
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The sun will rise from west.
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East Coast is safer.\n\nWest Coast has a lot of really big Volcano's and we are waiting for an Earth Quake called "The Big One"
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Moisture brought in off the pacific I suspect.
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At that latitude (dist from equator) Air tends to descend instead of rise (and create rain) like in the tropics.  Look at all land around that dist from the equator.  Mostly dry if it is not coastal.
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A low pressure system occurs in the air above the sea surface. It is where warmer, lighter air is rising. A high pressure system forms where cooler, drier, heavier air is sinking. Winds blow from areas of high pressure towards areas of low pressure.\n\nAs warm moist air over the ocean rises above a low pressure system it cools. Once the water vapour in the air cools to a certain point it condenses to form tiny water droplets which we see as clouds. If there is enough turbulence in a cloud and the cloud is big enough the water droplets clump together until they grow large enough to fall out of the cloud as rain.\n\nIn a strong low pressure system lots of warm moist air is rising rapidly and so very big clouds can form which have a great deal of turbulence inside. These are called storm clouds. Because they hold lots of moisture and because the tiny droplets of water inside collide with each other very frequently, very large raindrops can form which fall to the ground in heavy downpours.
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Prevailing winds off the coast of Africa blow hot air over the relatively cooler ocean. Given that hot air rises, this creates a zone of low pressure that rotates given the Coriolis effect. As the hot air blow over the ocean, it causes a higher rate of evaporation. As more and more moisture is pulled from the ocean, it produces more powerful rainclouds that quickly turn into thunderstorms rotating around this center of low pressure. This is the engine of a hurricane: hot air is sucked in underneath the clouds over the ocean, and pulled by the lower pressure into the eye, which draws the moisture up to the top of the hurricane and condenses.
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I would say on the eastern side.  You're still going to be experiencing the most Positive Vorticity on that side.  Though the clouds should be mostly mid and high level clouds.  \n\nAs for formation:\n\nFrom the American Meterological Society glossary:\nA sequence of events by which a warm high or cold low, originally within the westerlies, becomes displaced either poleward (cut-off high) or equatorward (cut-off low) out of the westerly current. \nThis process is evident at very high levels in the atmosphere; it frequently produces, or is part of the production of, a blocking situation.
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Typhoons occur in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean; Hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean.
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well the rain shadow effect of the mountains is a biggie. air gets trapped on the eastern side of mountains, and pollution just hangs out. climate would be the fact that it is a moist climate... I am noot sure about that, but I would assume the wind patterns.... western easterlies? I would look up those terms in a high school geography book or online and go from there.
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Continents will grow and hell will freeze over!~ polar caps will dominate the poles causing the earth to wobble throwing precession off wack pure kaos!!!! terrorism will end though!
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Japan, US, Mexico, etc around the Pacific Ocean.  Subject to a lot of earthquakes and volcanoes (caused by the same thing)
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The most important change would be with the weather, for example California would have more rainfall but the east would have substantially less. This would also cause a shift in the ocean currents and the vast rivers under the oceans could be reversed causing further climatic change.
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The same as everywhere else.\n\nHigher wind speeds disperse pollutants.  Wind direction determines where pollutants go.
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Ocean currents are the funamental transfer of heat from warm areas to cold areas. They have the potential to affect the jet streams and general pressure patterns around the globe. Ocean currents still remain in many areas despite daily flouctuating changes in surface air conditions.\n\nIn order to find the answer to this you have to see where sea currents are the most weak and where air currents are present. I would therefore suggest that the doldrums are probably the most likely to affect sea currents, as well as extreme winds such as hurricans, monsoons and also some deep low pressures in the North atlantic Ocean.
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Hot air rises at the equator and moves north.  As it cools, it sinks in the lower mid-latitudes.  Air moves back toward the equator.  This is called the Hadley cell.  Google it for more info.  Its a very general approximation of air movement.  Note that it is influenced by the Coriolis Effect if you look at it in 3 dimensions.\n\nCheck this out:\n\nhttp://www.newmediastudio.org/DataDiscovery/Hurr_ED_Center/Easterly_Waves/Trade_Winds/Trade_Winds.html
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Check this out..\nThe primary air mass classifications are given below:\n\nmT= Maritime Tropical\nmP= Maritime Polar\ncP = Continental Polar\ncT = Continental Tropical\nA = Arctic\nH = Highland\n\nMaritime Tropical\n\nThe maritime tropical air mass is most often felt in the Southeast US. In the winter this air mass is shoved toward the equator but in summer it can cover much of the US east of the Rockies. This air mass results from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf Stream. The warm waters in this region evaporate an enormous volume of water. Cold water currents tend to stabilize the atmosphere and produce little evaporation while warm waters destabilize the atmosphere and add moisture. The warm waters warm the low levels of the atmosphere. Temperatures in this air mass warm to highs in the 80's and 90's in the summer and the 70's and 80's in winter. High dewpoints characterize mT air. At all times of the year dewpoints are greater than 50 ° F. The majority of US thunderstorm activity develops within the mT airmass, most being by way of scattered thermodynamic thunderstorms and thunderstorms out ahead of fronts.\nAs the maritime tropical airmass moves over land it begins to "pick up" characteristics of a continental climate. This is particularly true when the mT airmass moves toward the North. The mT airmass modifies due to lower sun angles, drier land below, and cooler land below. The surface CHART #1 show a mT airmass across the Eastern US with the classic mT airmass in the Southeast US and a modified mT airmass across New England. (link to this chart is coming soon)\n\nMaritime Polar\n\nThe source region for mP air is over cold ocean currents or high latitude ocean waters. This air does not have the moisture content as mT air. Since mP air is always near saturation, orographic lifting of the air mass can produce widespread rain or snow. This air mass is notorious for producing fog, drizzle, cloudy weather and long lasting light to moderate rain. The temperature of mP air ranges from just above freezing to below 70 ° F. mP air is modified as it moves over elevated terrain. On the windward side of mountain ranges, mP air can produce an abundance of rain and snow. Once on the lee side of mountains, the mP airmass modifies into a continental airmass. These air masses produce cold fronts but the air is not as cold as polar or arctic fronts. They are often termed "Pacific fronts" or "back-door cold fronts". Maritime Polar air occurs frequently in the Pacific Northwest and to a lesser degree New England and can be seen on CHART #1.\n\nContinental Polar\n\nThis airmass has low dewpoints, cold temperatures and a high degree of stability. The denseness of cP air creates surface high pressure and a trough aloft, especially when cP air moves into lower latitudes. Precipitation in association with cP air is usually light due to the dryness and low moisture capacity of the air. Precipitation is most common on the "edges" of cP air, especially where it intersects and displaces mT air. Precipitation within a cP air mass is elevated and dynamically induced. These dynamical uplift mechanisms include jet streaks, isentropic lifting and positive differential vorticity advection. Cold surface temperatures and a dry boundary layer inhibit thermodynamic convection.\ncP air modifies rapidly as it moves to the South. The dewpoints remain low but the temperature of this airmass increases when moving South due to the following: warmer soil temperature, a shallower airmass, higher sun angles and a lack of surface snow cover. cP air will modify less rapidly if soil temperature are abnormally low to the south (especially if surface snow cover exists). On some occasions the subtropical jet will "overrun" the shallow cP air. If this occurs, the cP air will modify less rapidly due to a much reduced solar heating. Once cP air modifies significantly it no longer makes sense to la