What is Air Mass?

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...

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

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

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

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

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

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

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...