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 lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.
A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...