Basic Weather

Convection is driven by buoyancy. So we will first define an air parcel. We are going to be using this term a lot. An air parcel is an imaginary volume …

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We will start with the convective weather. The convective processes in the atmosphere involve heating the air at the surface, which results in lifting the air from the Earth’s surface …