What is Atmosphere?

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...

The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

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

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