In Geographical terms, A fall line is the imaginary line between two parallel rivers, at the point where rivers plunge, or fall, at roughly the same elevation. The Fall Line marks the point...
Autumn, also known as fall in American and Canadian English. It is the Season between winter and summer. Astronomically, it is the period from the autumnal equinox to the winter solstice in the Northern....
23.5 degree latitude is known as Tropic of Cancer. It is present above the Equator. At this place the midday sun rays are vertical about 21 June. It...
Campbell-Stokes Recorder is a device used for recording and measuring the duration of bright sunshine over a period of time. How it works: A fixed spherical lens burns...
In Geography, Calving means the detachment of an Iceberg from the glacier front when the glacier reaches the sea, or the detachment of a portion of an iceberg...
Calorie is the unit of energy. The word comes from Latin calor, meaning ‘heat’. It is defined as the quantity of heat, needed to raise 1 gm of water at...
The region of light and calm winds lying in the belt of high pressure near the Tropic of Capricorn in Southern Hemisphere is known as Clams of Capricorn....
Hirotugu Akaike was a Japanese statistician who worked in Information theory. The Akaike information criterion, which is now widely used for model selection and Statistical analysis was formulated by him for...
In Geography terminology, Calm is the state of the atmosphere when there is no horizontal movement of wind. In Calm state the wind speed is less than 1...