What is Circulation?

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...

A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.

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

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...

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...