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What is Katabatic Wind?

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

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The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

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...

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

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

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

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

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...