What is Anticyclone?

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

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

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

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...