What is Broken Clouds?

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

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

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

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