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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The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...
The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.
The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...