What is Climatology?

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

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...

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

A storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere known as thunder.

The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...

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

A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...

A measurement determined by the wave lengths and sea conditions caused by the effect of wind, and by the movement of tree...