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What is Precipitation?

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail.

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The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

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

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

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

The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...

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

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...