| A | B |
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| monsoon | wind system, most often with heavy rains that influences large climatic regions and reverses direction seasonally |
| sea breeze | local wind blowing from the sea toward the land when the air pressure is higher over the sea than over the land |
| land breeze | local wind blowing from the land toward the sea when the air pressure over the land is greater tha the air pressure over the sea |
| Coriolis Effect | observed path of an object (or fluid) at the surface of the Earth undergoing a predictable horizontal deflection; rightward deflection in the northern hemisphere and leftward deflection in the northern hemisphere |
| condensation nuclei | solid surface onto which water vapor may condense to form liquid droplets |
| deposition | the process of water vapor changing directly into ice crystals |
| dew | condensation occurring on Earth's surface |
| frost | deposit of minute crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing |
| orographic effect | effect that mountains have on weather and climate; blockage of precipitation from the leeward side of mountains |
| cumuliform clouds | having the shape of cumulus clouds; dense, white, fluffy, flat-based cloud with a multiple rounded top and a well-defined outline, usually formed by the ascent of thermally unstable air masses |
| stratiform clouds | low-altitude cloud formation consisting of a horizontal layer of gray clouds |
| precipitation | generally from clouds, the falling of water as liquid (rain) or solid (ice, hail, and snow) |
| evaporation | change of phase from liquid to vapor (gas) occurring at the surface of that liquid |
| transpiration | process which adds water to the atmosphere by transpiring, especially through the stomata of plant tissue or the pores of skin |
| evapotranspiration | combination of both processes of evaporation and transpiration |
