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What is Katabatic Wind?

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

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

A periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, significantly influencing global...

Particles such as pollen, grass seeds, or dust in the air that cause allergies and are transported by winds.

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

The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...

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

Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...

CONQ is a meteorological abbreviation for significant convection observed in a specific area, often indicating unstable atmospheric...

Cloud condensation nuclei are tiny particles in the atmosphere, such as dust, salt, or pollutants, that provide surfaces...

Condensation pressure deficit refers to the difference between the actual vapor pressure and the saturation vapor pressure...