What is Advection?
The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena such as temperature and humidity advection. In simple terms, it is the horizontal movement of heat from one region to another.
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The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...
Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.
Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.
Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
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