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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Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...
A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.
A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...
A cold core low is a low-pressure system where the coldest temperatures are found near the center. These systems are often...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...