Dark blue cloudy sky

What is 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.

Schedule a Demo Today

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

Contact Us

Glossary

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

Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...