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Altocumulus castellanus

Weather; General weather

A middle cloud with vertical development that forms from altocumulus clouds. It is composed primarily of ice crystals in its higher portions and characterised by its turrets, protuberances, or ...

A violent, rotating column of air visibly extending from the base of a towering cumulus or cumulonimbus toward the ground, but not in contact with it. It is reported as "FC" in an observation and on ...

Relative vorticity

Weather; General weather

The sum of the rotation of an air parcel about the axis of the pressure system and the rotation of the parcel about its own axis. Refer to vorticity.

Altostratus

Weather; General weather

This middle cloud genus is composed of water droplets, and sometimes ice crystals. In the mid-latitudes, cloud bases are generally found between 15,000 and 20,000 feet. White to grey in color, it can ...

Fusion

Weather; General weather

The change of state from a solid to a liquid at the same temperature. The heat of fusion is the number of gramme calories of heat necessary to change one gramme of a substance from the solid to the ...

Resolution

Weather; General weather

In relation to radar, it is the ability to read two distinct targets separately. The clearer the resolution, the nearer the two objects can be to each other and still be distinguishable.