What is Climatology?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...