What is Sublimation?
The process by which a solid changes directly into a gas without first becoming a liquid, such as ice turning into water vapor.
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Occurs when centers of high pressure and/or low pressure set up over a region in such a way that they prevent other weather...
The decrease in temperature with height in an adiabatically rising air parcel (lapse rate). For dry air, this value is 1...
A drainage wind that flows downhill due to gravity, often associated with cold air descending from elevated regions.
The belt between 50-70 ° N and S latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, adjacent to the Polar Region. Although...
In a severe storm, with a swirling motion in its left rear quadrant, a vertically rotating column of air, often seen with...
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.
A bomb cyclone is a large mid-latitude storm that forms when a storm’s central pressure drops (i.e. “bombs out”), resulting...
A scale for estimating wind speed based on observed conditions of the sea or land. It ranges from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane)...
A prefix used in cloud nomenclature to describe middle-altitude clouds that form between 6,500 and 20,000 feet, such as altostratus...