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.
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The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...
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A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
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A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...