What is Climatology?

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

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

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

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

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

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

A strong wind typically ranging from 34 to 40 knots (39 to 46 miles per hour) and often associated with rough seas and stormy...