What is Climatology?

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

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

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

Coastal flooding occurs when water from the ocean, sea, or large lakes inundates land areas along the coast, usually due...

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.