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What is La Niña?

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global weather patterns such as reduced rainfall in some areas and increased rainfall in others.

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Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...

A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.

A weather front where two air masses meet but neither is strong enough to move the other, often resulting in prolonged periods...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...

A deviation from the normal or expected value in atmospheric or climatic conditions, often used in meteorology to identify...

Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...

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

A thin, white cloud layer that is intertwined or separate, arranged in regular order, and does not cast a shadow.

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.