What is Anabatic Wind?
Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general pressure changes. Generally, the term is used for upward air currents, vertical movements in the formation of cumulus clouds, and valley breezes rather than anabatic winds. Anabatic winds are less common than katabatic winds, which occur through the opposite process.
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A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.