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What is Isobar?

A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure, used to identify high and low-pressure systems.

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Glossary

Air laden with sand and dust, common in areas devoid of permanent vegetation, especially deserts.

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

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

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

The amount of radiation, heat, or light passing through or flowing from a unit area of a surface.

The term used for turbulence occurring in the absence of clouds or cloud-like elements in the visible area. It is often observed...

A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...

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

A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...

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