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 mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...