What is Climatology?

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

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

An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...

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...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

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

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...