What is Gale?

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

The measure of the water vapor or moisture content in the air, expressed as the mass of water vapor per unit volume of air....

The temperature at which air becomes saturated with moisture and water vapor begins to condense into liquid form, leading...

A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.

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

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

A large body of air having similar horizontal temperature and moisture characteristics.

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

An instrument used to measure the speed, force, and sometimes the direction of the wind. It can be cup or pressure tube anemometers....

The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...