What is Atmosphere?

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

The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.

A strong, downward wind caused by a localized column of air sinking rapidly, often resulting in damage similar to that caused...

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

Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...

A cloud that develops from Cirrus, completely or partially covering the sky, creating a halo effect, thin, sheet-like, milky...

A distinct layer in a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth, separating warmer surface water from...

A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...

Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...

The horizontal transport of any feature within the atmosphere due to the movement of air (wind). This includes phenomena...