What is Climatology?

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

A weather warning means that a weather hazard is occurring, imminent, or likely. In other words, severe weather is happening...

Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure, often associated with unsettled weather conditions like storms...

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

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

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