Adiabatic Gradient

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1 °C per 100 m. For moist air, this value can drop to 0.4 °C.

Glossary

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

A weather watch means there is a risk of weather hazards in the near future, which could pose a threat to life/property....

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

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 thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

Schedule a Demo Today

A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!

Contact Us