Dark blue cloudy sky

What is Adiabatic Gradient?

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1 °C per 100 m. For moist air, this value can drop to 0.4 °C.

Schedule a Demo Today

A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!

Contact Us

Glossary

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

Nor'easter is a meteorological event commonly observed in the Northeastern United States and typically occurs during the...

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

A cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

A cold core high is a high-pressure system with cold air at its center. These systems are typically associated with clear...

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

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