a wedge of warm air between the warm and cold fronts of a depression, which is eventually occluded
See also cold front, warm front
Examples of 'warm sector' in a sentence
warm sector
The squall line developed in the warm sector of a low, ahead of the cold front.
I. C. Oprea, A. Bell 2009, 'Meteorological environment of a tornado outbreak in Southern Romania', Natural Hazards and Earth System Scienceshttp://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/9/609/2009/nhess-9-609-2009.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Clouds associated primarily with the warm sector of the storm were sampled at various locations and altitudes.
J. L. Stith, C. H. Twohy, P. J. DeMott, D. Baumgardner, T. Campos, R. Gao, J. Anderson 2011, 'Observations of ice nuclei and heterogeneous freezing in a Western Pacific extratropicalstorm', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physicshttp://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/6229/2011/acp-11-6229-2011.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)