Chimneys are ventilation channels that guide smoke and other gases from living spaces. Homes with a fireplace and chimney always seem to have more charm and character than those without. You think about fun things like the holidays, Santa clause, cold winter evenings, and hot chocolate. The hearth was commonly referred to as the family’s…
Have you ever seen rain and snow occur together? Imagine how beautiful the city will look when that happens. Well, the good news is that yes. Both rain and snow can occur together at the same time. When this happens, you will often find that rain is heavy and the snow that falls on the…
Before we know about the climate, we need to know what the weather is. By the term weather, we mean a set of conditions prevailing in the atmosphere of a particular location for a limited period, for example, a whole day or at night or at a specific time during a day. Although only one…
Acid rain is a broad term that includes any precipitation which has acidic components like sulfuric or nitric acid that fall from the atmosphere to the ground in the form of rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust. The acid rain containing water is known as wet deposition, while the acid rain with dust or…
If you look out of your window, you’ll probably see buildings, trees, telephone poles and so on. The world we live in today has mostly been shaped by humans. However, it’s not only humans that are moving things and shaping the planet. Rain, wind, and other natural elements shape the earth all the time, leaving…
The Southern Ocean is also known as the Antarctic Ocean located in the Southern hemisphere that surrounds the Antarctica. It is ranked as the fourth- largest of the five principal oceans in the world constituting 15 percent of the earth’s waters. The Southern Ocean is the newest named ocean recognized by the United States Board…
The Pacific is the largest ocean on Earth, discovered by Ferdinand Magellan. This huge mass of water is stretching from the Arctic to the Southern Ocean from the Bering Sea in Alaska to the Ross Sea in Antarctica. It binds with the Atlantic Ocean through the Bering Strait in the north and south across the…
Air mass is an extremely large body of air in the atmosphere whose properties – temperature, humidity and lapse rate, which is the decrease of atmospheric temperature with height, are largely uniform over an area which can be several hundred kilometers across the surface of the earth. Climate science defines air mass as a relatively…
Precipitation is the falling of water from the sky in different forms. They all form from the clouds which are raised about 8 to 16 kilometers (4 to 11 miles) above the ground in the earth’s troposphere. Precipitation takes place whenever any or all forms of water particles fall from these high levels of the…
Acid rain is formed by elevated levels of sulfur and nitric acids in the atmospheres that accumulate as a result of Nitrogen oxides (NOx) and Sulfur dioxides (SO2) emissions. Acid rain is a mix of atmospheric water molecules and dry depositions of Sulfur dioxides and Nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and vehicles. When these gases…