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What is Low Clouds?

A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist of stratus and stratocumulus clouds, while cumuliform clouds include cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. The cloud base heights vary according to the warm or cold regions.

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Glossary

An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.

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

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

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

The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...

A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...

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

The jet stream forming the boundary between tropical air and sub-tropical air, characterized by isothermal compression and...

A tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, is a severe tropical storm with wind speeds in excess of 74 mph. Known as a...

Thermodynamic changes occurring within a system without any exchange of heat with the surroundings. In the atmosphere, changes...