- 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 Mach number of an aircraft when the coefficient of lift of the aerodynamic surfaces is the maximum obtainable for the pressure altitude, true airspeed, and angle of attack under which the craft is operated.
Industry:Weather
The length of time that continuous, reliable observations of any of the weather elements are available at a particular location.
Industry:Weather
The level of the water surface in a river measured with reference to some datum.
Industry:Weather
The level of the water surface in a stream, river, or reservoir, measured with reference to some datum.
Industry:Weather
The level that the sea surface would assume in the absence of wind waves; not to be confused with mean sea level or half-tide level.
Industry:Weather
The light and variable winds that occur in the centers of the subtropical high pressure belts over the oceans. See horse latitudes, calms of Cancer, calms of Capricorn.
Industry:Weather
The limited tendency for existing weather conditions to persist. It is reflected by the positive correlation between successive values of most meteorological elements when arranged in their order of occurrence.
Industry:Weather
The length of time required for friction to reduce the relative vorticity of a column of fluid to 1/''e'' = 37. 8% of its initial value. This timescale is used to characterize the importance of friction and presumes an exponential decay of relative vorticity as would occur for linear friction processes.
Industry:Weather
