What is Cirrocumulus?

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

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

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

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

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

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

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

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...