What is Occluded Front?
A weather front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground and resulting in a mix of weather conditions.
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The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
Convection is the vertical movement of air caused by temperature differences, where warm air rises and cool air sinks. It...
A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atmosphere, typically flowing from west to east and influencing weather patterns.
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
A weather system refers to the movement of warm and cold air across the globe, usually in a recurring pattern. Systems can...
A term used to identify clouds with a base height below 6,000 feet in the observer's direction. Stratiform clouds consist...
Ball lightning appears during thunderstorms, taking the shape of glowing, electric orbs in the sky. It can appear in a variety...
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These clouds consist of water droplets...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
The reflectance rate of a surface, indicating the amount of electromagnetic radiation reflected from the surface. It depends...