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 UsGlossary
The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.
A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.
The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
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 scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...