What is Air Mass?

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

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

A very cold high pressure that originates over the Arctic Ocean.

Jet streams are strong, fast-flowing air currents in the upper levels of the atmosphere. They form when warm air masses meet...

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air cools and changes into liquid water. This process is crucial...

Temperature scale, abbreviated as °C, found by accepting the freezing point of water at one atmospheric pressure as zero...

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.