What is Climatology?

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...

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

A type of low-altitude cloud that forms in uniform layers, often covering the entire sky and producing overcast conditions.

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...