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...
Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...
The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...
Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...
A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.