What is Aerodynamics?

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

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

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...