What is Climatology?

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

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

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

A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

Ice forms on the surface of highways in a very thin layer that is difficult to distinguish from the color of the asphalt...

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

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