A low pressure system that brushed past the Bay Area is approaching Southern California, with the potential for thunder, fire ...

If you’ve ever wondered what’s really happening in the atmosphere when these storms pop up, you can actually recreate a ...

Convection currents also occur in the atmosphere, forming the Hadley cell, the Ferrel cell and the Polar cell. Air warmed in the tropics rises and, in the northern hemisphere, heads northwards.

angular momentum—An object's momentum when that object follows a path around a fixed point, such as an axis. See also momentum below. convection cell—Convection is the movement of heat within ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Mother Nature put on a display of convection ... ceiling in the atmosphere. The event began with a small cumulus cloud, and then the rising air currents kept the cloud ...

If the constituents of the atmosphere were uniformly mixed at all altitudes and then left free from convection currents, there would be partial separation into lighter and heavier particles ...