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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

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

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

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.