What is Atmosphere?

The term 'cloudy' refers to weather conditions characterized by a significant amount of cloud cover in the sky. This may...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

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

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.