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

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A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

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

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...