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What is Atmospheric River?

A long, narrow region in the atmosphere that transport water vapor, like a river in the sky.

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A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

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

Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...

A fixed potential temperature line on adiabats, or the process of thermodynamic changes within a system without any exchange...

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

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

A closed low, also known as a cut-off low, is a low-pressure system that is entirely isolated from the main atmospheric circulation...

The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...

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

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...