What is Aerodynamics?

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

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

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