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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Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...
A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...
The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...