What is Acid Rain?
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
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Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...
A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...
An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....
The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...
A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...
The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....