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 cloud of irregular appearance, composed of irregular cloud fragments.

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

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

Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.

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

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

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

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

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