What is Cirriform?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A towering cloud that often reaches great altitudes and is associated with thunderstorms, heavy rain, and sometimes severe...