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What is Orographic Lift?

The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.

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Glossary

Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.

A type of cloud consisting mostly of small particles such as ice particles.

Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...

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

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

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

The heating of the Earth by the sun causes daily changes in both the direction and speed of the wind. During the day, ground...

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

The percentage of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature.

A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...