What is La Niña?
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global weather patterns such as reduced rainfall in some areas and increased rainfall in others.
Schedule a Demo Today
A new era is starting with fundamentally new forecasting with unprecedented precision!
Contact UsGlossary
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water...
A polar vortex is a circulating mass of air in the atmosphere, typically found in polar regions. This rotating air mass occurs...
A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...
A cold front is the leading edge of a cold air mass that replaces a warmer air mass. It is typically associated with sudden...
Confluence refers to the area where two or more air streams or bodies of water meet and combine. In meteorology, it often...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
An image on the weather radar that is convex to the direction of movement and resembles an arc shape, caused by mesoscale...