What is Precipitation?
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
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The branch of science dealing with the laws of motion of air or other gases.
The trapping of heat in the Earth's atmosphere due to greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, which allows...
The mass of air surrounding the earth and bound to it more or less permanently by the earth's gravitational attraction.
The situation where there is no advection because the constant pressure surfaces and temperature surfaces in the atmosphere...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...
Anticyclones are areas of high atmospheric pressure that bring hot, dry weather in the summer and cold fronts in the winter.
Weather is the day-to-day meteorological conditions that happen in our atmosphere. Weather can change within minutes, which...
The upward movement of air caused by a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, which can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.
Conduction is the transfer of heat or electricity through a material without the material itself moving. This occurs when...
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...