What is Confluence?
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often describes regions of converging airflows that can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...
The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...
A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...
A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.