What is Atmosphere?

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

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

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

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

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

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

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

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

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