WordNet
n. a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere
Usage examples of "atmospheric phenomenon".
Actually, in the nimbus we have cloud in such a condition that it ceases to be an atmospheric phenomenon in any real sense of the word.
The oceans and the atmosphere evolved together, exerting strong influences on each other, and even today such an 'obviously' atmospheric phenomenon as weather turns out to be closely related to what happens in the oceans.
Rosenzweig and his team of renowned scholars is close to the discovery of an atmospheric phenomenon that may have caused the vanishing of so many people instantaneously.
Throughout the city of Manila and the islands of the Philippines, indeed, across the western Pacific region as far south as Australia and as far north as Vietnam and China, the atmospheric phenomenon released by the impact of the comet was spreading its swift and inexorable destruction.
This is an atmospheric phenomenon, caused by electrically charged particles from the sun bombarding the upper atmosphere.
The men have all convinced themselves that what I saw was some kind of transient polar atmospheric phenomenon.