What is Isobar?

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

Glossary

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

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

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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