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What is Flux?

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

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Glossary

Large, fluffy white clouds with flat bases, typically indicating fair weather, though they can develop into storm clouds...

A sudden and rapid flow of snow masses accumulated on the slopes of mountainous areas under the influence of gravity or a...

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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

A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground, capable of causing significant damage.

An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...

Frozen drizzle is a dangerous type of frozen rain. It’s a light rain that falls in very fine drops, which freezes on contact...