What is Climatology?

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

A thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere near the Earth's surface, significantly reducing visibility.

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

Considerable cloudiness refers to weather conditions where a large portion of the sky is covered with clouds, but some clear...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

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

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

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