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 state of the atmosphere when it contains the maximum amount of water vapor possible at a given temperature and pressure.
A middle cloud type within the B family in the international cloud classification. These are shaded clouds that can be white...
A low-pressure area with converging winds, rotating counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make them acidic.
A thermodynamic change process in the system without any exchange of heat or transfer of energy between systems. This process...
Any form of water - liquid or solid - that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, including rain, snow, sleet,...
Observation of the sky from the observer's location where there are no clouds, and there is no obstruction to visibility....
A periodic cooling of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, often leading to altered global...
The lowest level of a given cloud or cloud layer in the atmosphere, relative to the observer's position above the ground.
Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice that form in thunderstorm updrafts and fall to the ground.