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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In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.