What is Circulation?

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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

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

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

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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