What is Aerodynamics?

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

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A large, organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft, often producing severe weather such as tornadoes, hail, and heavy...

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

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.