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.
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A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
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A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
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A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...