What is Air Mass?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

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

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.