What is Stratus?

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

Glossary

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

A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

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