What is Saturation?

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

The amount of water vapor present in the air, which can affect comfort levels and weather conditions.

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

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

A measure of how hot it feels when relative humidity is combined with the actual air temperature, often referred to as the...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

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