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What is Atmosphere?

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

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Glossary

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

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

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

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

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

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

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