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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, ...
In physical chemistry, a system composed of one substance (suspended phase, suspensoid) dispersed throughout another substance (suspending phase) in a moderately finely divided state, but not so finely divided as to acquire the stability of a colloidal system. Given sufficient time, a suspension will, by definition, separate itself by gravitational action into two visibly distinct portions, whereas a colloidal system, by definition, is stable. Dust in the atmosphere is an example of a suspension of a solid in a gas.
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In oceanography, the square root of the ratio of the spacing between orthogonals in deep water and in shallow water. It is a measure of the effect of refraction in diminishing wave height by increasing the length of the wave crest.
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In oceanography, a thermometer used in a bucket of seawater to measure sea surface temperature.
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In oceanography, a mixed layer for which the slab approximation can be made.
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In oceanography, a special drifting buoy (named after Mary Swallow) that can be used in adjustable density (thus subsurface) horizons.
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In ocean wave forecasting, a fictitious wave with a height and period equal to the average height and period of the highest one-third of the actual waves that pass a fixed point.
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In meteorology, used to describe a state of statistical equilibrium between ensembles of cumulus convective clouds and larger-scale processes. In such an equilibrium state, the rate of generation of convective available potential energy by the larger-scale processes is balanced by frictional dissipation within the convective clouds.
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In meteorology, the result of radiative cooling of the earth's surface and adjacent air. Radiational cooling occurs, as is typical on calm, clear nights, whenever the longwave emission from the surface is not balanced by significant amounts of absorbed shortwave radiation or downwelling longwave from the atmosphere above the surface, and there are no nonradiative sources of sufficient energy to make up the difference.
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In meteorology, the motion of an atmospheric wave or pressure system in a direction opposite to that of the basic flow in which it is embedded.
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In meteorology, the atmospheric pressure at a given location on the earth's surface. This expression is applied loosely and about equally to the more specific terms: station pressure and sea level pressure.
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