Dark blue cloudy sky

What is Adiabatic Lapse Rate?

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment. During ascent, the dry adiabatic lapse rate is 9.8 °C/km for unsaturated air parcels.

Schedule a Demo Today

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

Contact Us

Glossary

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

Nimbostratus clouds are thick, dark, gray clouds associated with rainy and gloomy days that block the Sun. These clouds,...

The occurrence of storms resulting from the horizontal advection of cold air at high levels or the horizontal advection of...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

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

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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 middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.