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581 - ATPL Question Bank in English - In the idealised midlatitude frontal-depression model, where does the surface projection of the polar-front jet generally lie relative to the surface cold and warm fronts?

Question 581 - Meteorology - ATPL - Airline Transport Pilot Licence

On the warm side of both fronts: ahead of the surface cold front and behind the surface warm front.

On the cold side of the surface fronts: behind the cold front and ahead of the warm front, with the distances depending on the frontal structure.

Directly above both surface front lines, regardless of the slope of their frontal surfaces.

At a position determined only by the surface wind direction, independently of the temperature gradient aloft.

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