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What is Acid Rain?

Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.

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The expected rate of temperature decrease in an adiabatically rising air parcel when there is no heat exchange with the environment....

Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...

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

A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...

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

The large-scale movement of air that distributes heat and moisture around the Earth, influencing weather patterns and climatic...

A line of severe thunderstorms that can form along or ahead of a cold front, often producing strong winds and heavy rain.

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A small, intense downdraft that produces damaging winds at the surface, typically lasting a few minutes and often associated...