- Industry: Weather
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The American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, AMS has a membership of more than 14,000 professionals, ...
The speed of propagation of the wave crest or trough. An alternative definition, useful for linear waves if many wave spectral components are involved, is the frequency multiplied by the wavelength, or the angular frequency divided by the wavenumber.
Industry:Weather
The smallest root-mean-square sound pressure that can be perceived by an average person without special aids. Usually specified as 0 dB, it corresponds to 2 x 10<sup>−5</sup> N m<sup>−2</sup> or 0. 0002 microbar.
Industry:Weather
The ratio of the area measured at the most contracted section of a jet of liquid issuing from an opening to the area of the opening.
Industry:Weather
The tendency to build up the mass or density of a given water type (of temperature ''T'' and salinity ''S'' characteristics) due to air–sea fluxes or mixing.
Industry:Weather
The process of measuring a quantity or quantities, transmitting the measured value to a distant station, and there interpreting, indicating, or recording the quantities measured. Typically, spacecraft telemetry includes parameters, such as spacecraft temperature, power supply, and orbital information, that are transmitted to earth to monitor the status of spacecraft.
Industry:Weather
The time of flow of a parcel or packet of water, contaminant, or tracer from one point to another.
Industry:Weather
The upwind direction from a point, for example, westward in the case of a west wind.
Industry:Weather
The water content of a soil when an indicator plant (or common agricultural crop) can no longer draw water from the soil, even if atmospheric water demand is zero (near saturated atmosphere and plant and atmosphere at uniform temperature); often estimated as a soil water potential at 15 bars (or atmospheres). For many agricultural soils, this represents a loss of about half the total water-holding capacity of a soil.
Industry:Weather
