What is Precipitation?
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
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A sudden electrostatic discharge during a thunderstorm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between clouds, or...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
Although it is also used for light winds, it is the general name given to the daily cyclical winds that occur mostly between...
An instrument that continuously records atmospheric pressure over time. It uses a barometer to measure pressure and creates...
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.
Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and weather processes. It involves observing, analyzing, and forecasting...
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 reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
Indicates the amount of water the soil can absorb/retain through percolation. This capacity is around 7% in sandy soil and...