METEOROLOGIST JEFF HABY
A baroclinic leaf is the name given to a synoptic cloud formation that resembles the shape of a leaf. It is the lifting exerted from the
low pressure system and the warm and cold fronts that produces this cloud pattern. When air is lifted to the point of saturation, then
clouds will develop. In a large region of assent such as with frontal boundaries and lows, the lifting will produce a broad continuous
region of clouds. The diagram below shows the baroclinic leaf cloud formation and the relative position of the fronts and low pressure system.
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