What is Saturation?

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

The state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.

A body that has the property of absorbing all electromagnetic radiation falling on it, and therefore is the theoretical body...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

The narrow region between 35-40 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, lying between the tropical...

The names given to the winds blowing from the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west - N, E, S, W) on a compass.

Weather conditions are the components that comprise the state of the atmosphere. The six main weather conditions are temperature,...

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

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

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