- 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, ...
State of the atmosphere at a particular time over an extensive area.
Industry:Weather
Spanish nautical term for east wind. The name is given to a hot, dry, dusty easterly, or southeasterly wind that blows from the Atlantic coast of Morocco out to Madeira and the Canary Islands. It is a form of sirocco and occurs in front of depressions advancing eastward. Compare levanto.
Industry:Weather
Soundings by means of kites, sometimes used for measuring certain weather elements in the lower atmosphere.
Industry:Weather
Sometimes used for “small” jet stream. The term very likely originated to describe relatively small regions of maximum wind, especially those analyzed as jet streams because the maximum wind falls within an arbitrary range of jet- stream speed.
Industry:Weather
Snowstorm occurring near or downwind from the shore of a lake resulting from the warming (destabilization) and moistening of relatively cold air during passage over a warm body of water.
Industry:Weather
Similar to mixed-layer similarity as a way to find empirically universal relationships between boundary layer variables, except using a general height z in place of the depth of the mixed layer zi and using local values of fluxes at height z (including in the definition for Deardorff velocity). This approach is designed for use in the statically unstable surface layer. Compare local similarity, similarity theory, dimensional analysis, Buckingham Pi theory.
Industry:Weather
Similar to local free-convection similarity, except designed for the statically stable boundary layer. Also known as z-less scaling, because the appropriate length scale does not depend on height z. Compare similarity theory, dimensional analysis, Buckingham Pi theory.
Industry:Weather
Severe squalls during the change of seasons in October and November in Arabia.
Industry:Weather
