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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, ...
Fragmentation of an atom or molecule into two or more components, some of which are charged (electrons, ions), as a consequence of absorption of a photon (interaction with electromagnetic radiation). Photoionization is an example of the photoelectric effect.
Industry:Weather
Freezing conditions that typically occur on clear nights with little or no wind, when the outgoing is greater than the incoming radiation and cooling air temperature near the surface creates a stable temperature inversion near the ground.
Industry:Weather
General name for alkanes; usually used with reference to alkanes with a large number of carbon atoms that are liquids or waxy solids.
Industry:Weather
Fundamentally no different from a shadow zone (at radio frequencies), although the term is often restricted to one associated with a duct.
Industry:Weather
A retarding force on the wind caused by viscous friction as air flows parallel to a smooth surface that it touches. Compare form drag, wave drag; See drag.
Industry:Weather
A reversing thermometer that is encased in a strong glass outer shell that protects it against hydrostatic pressure. Compare unprotected thermometer.
Industry:Weather
A ridge formed primarily by shear deformation, usually found along the boundary between fast ice and pack ice.
Industry:Weather
A rolled-up, cylindrical mass of snow, rather common in mountainous or hilly regions. It occurs when snow, moist enough to be cohesive, is picked up by wind blowing down a slope and rolled onward and downward until it either becomes too large or the ground levels off too much for the wind to propel it farther. Snow rollers vary in size from very small cylinders to some as large as 1. 5 m long and more than 2 m in circumference.
Industry:Weather
A rotation anemometer that has a fixed axis upon which a propeller consisting of helicoidal vanes is mounted.
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