General weather

General weather

Of or pertaining to weather

Contributors in General weather

General weather

Of or relating to the area around the geographic South Pole, from 90 degrees South to the Antarctic Circle at approximately 66 1/2 degrees South latitude, including the continent of Antarctica. Along ...

Frost

Weather; General weather

The covering of ice crystals that forms by direct sublimation on exposed surfaces whose temperature is below freezing.

Reflectivity

Weather; General weather

A measure of the process by which a surface can turn back a portion of incident radiation back into the medium through which the radiation approached. Reflectivity of a given surface is know as ...

Altitude

Weather; General weather

In meteorology, the measure of a height of an airborne object in respect to a constant pressure surface or above mean sea level.

Frozen precipitation

Weather; General weather

Precipitation that reaches the ground in a frozen state. Examples include snow, snow pellets, snow grains, ice crystals, ice pellets, and hail.

Refraction

Weather; General weather

The bending of light or radar beam as it passes through a zone of contrasting properties, such as atmospheric density, water vapor, or temperature.

Anabatic wind

Weather; General weather

A wind that is created by air flowing uphill. Valley breezes, produced by local daytime heating, are an example of these winds. The opposite of a katabatic wind.