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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, ...
Of equal or constant volume, usually applied to a thermodynamic process during which the volume of the system remains unchanged. Compare isosteric.
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Of equal or constant specific volume with respect to either time or space; equivalent to isopycnic. Compare isochoric.
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Of equal or constant pressure change; this may refer either to the distribution of equal pressure tendency in space or to the constancy of pressure tendency with time. The term allobaric, or simply, “pressure change,” could be used instead. This term, preferably, should not be used to mean “of isallobars. ”
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Of equal or constant entropy (or, in meteorology, potential temperature), with respect to either space or time.
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Northeasterly winds of Central America; they are prevalent during February and March and blow steadily for several days at a time.
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Odd nitrogen; generally taken to mean the sum of hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxyl (HO2) radicals. HOx species play a central role in atmospheric oxidation processes.
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Occupies the depth range between 1500 and 3800 m in the Indian Ocean. It is characterized by a salinity maximum of 34. 75–34. 80 psu, indicating that its origin is North Atlantic Deep Water imported eastward past the Cape of Good Hope. See deep water.
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Nontechnically, the luminosity observed from ordinary lightning too far away for its thunder to be heard. Since such observations have often been made with clear skies overhead, and since hot summer evenings particularly favor this type of observation, there has arisen a popular misconception that the presence of diffuse flashes in the apparent absence of thunderclouds implies that lightning is somehow occurring in the atmosphere merely as a result of excessive heat.
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Moisture held in a soil that is in equilibrium with atmospheric water vapor.
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