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What is Baroclinicity?

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

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The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

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

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

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

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

Snow that rises to 8 feet or higher.

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...