What is Low Clouds?
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist of stratus and stratocumulus clouds, while cumuliform clouds include cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. The cloud base heights vary according to the warm or cold regions.
Glossary
A mass of very cold, dry air that mostly originates over the Arctic Ocean.
A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...
Bright and dark rays with changing colors and contrast in the sky. These rays become visible due to the reflection of atmospheric...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...
An anvil is a cloud mostly composed of ice particles. Otherwise known as a cumulonimbus cloud, an anvil has reached the stratospheric...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.
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