What is Climatology?

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...

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

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

The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

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

An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...

The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...

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

A condition in which the stratification of the atmosphere depends on both air temperature and pressure, and where surfaces...