What is Climatology?

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

Local winds that blow from slopes to peaks as a result of the heating of the top slopes without being affected by general...

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

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

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...

A continental air mass is a large body of air that forms over land, characterized by dry conditions due to the lack of moisture...

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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