What is Confluence?
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often describes regions of converging airflows that can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
Glossary
A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.
Perhaps you have come across them, maybe you are seeing them for the first time. These clouds, known as wave clouds, resemble...
The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...
The term used for semi-stationary high-pressure centers such as the Azores and North Pacific Highs, which occur in the narrow...
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