What is Air Mass?

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...

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

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

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...