Editing Occluded front (section)

{{Short description|Meteorological interaction of warm and cool air masses}}
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[[File:Occluded cyclone.svg|thumb|Diagram of a cyclone in the early stages of occlusion  in the Northern Hemisphere]]
In meteorology, an '''occluded front''' is a type of [[weather front]] formed during [[cyclogenesis]]. The classical and usual view of an occluded front is that it starts when a [[cold front]] overtakes a [[warm front]] near a cyclone, such that the warm air is separated (occluded) from the [[cyclone]] center at the surface. The point where the warm front becomes the occluded front is the ''triple point''; a new [[Low-pressure area (meteorology)|area of low-pressure]] that develops at this point is called a ''triple-point low''. A more modern view of the formation process suggests that occluded fronts form directly without the influence of other fronts during the wrap-up of the [[Baroclinity|baroclinic zone]] during [[cyclogenesis]], and then lengthen due to flow [[Deformation (meteorology)|deformation]] and rotation around the cyclone as the cyclone forms.[[File:Front occlus trowal en.png|thumb|upright=1.5|Occlusion principle with positions of warm/cold occlusion fronts and the trowal]]