- 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, ...
A streamline separating fluid in motion from fluid at rest. Both pressure and speed are constant along a free streamline.
Industry:Weather
A snow surface that has attained a greenish tint as a result of the growth within it of certain microscopic algae (cryoplankton).
Industry:Weather
A southerly gale in Greece occurring a little before the equinox in March.
Industry:Weather
A specific area over which the conditions stated in a weather forecast are valid.
Industry:Weather
A station in a study area designated and designed for collection of groundwater information such as water level, temperature, or water quality. See also observation well, monitor well.
Industry:Weather
A snow surface feature that looks like small overlapping waves, like sea foam on a beach. Foam crust occurs during the ablation of the snow surface and may further develop into a more pronounced wedge-shaped form known as plowshares.
Industry:Weather
A small piece of floating sea ice, usually a fragment of an iceberg or floeberg. It floats low in the water, and its surface often is heavily pitted. It is smaller than a bergy bit and often appears greenish in color.
Industry:Weather
A slide rule used on British ships to compute barometric corrections and reduction of pressure to sea level. It includes the effects of temperature, latitude, index correction, and barometric height above sea level.
Industry:Weather
A single, effective value for the absorption coefficient that mimics the integrated behavior of all absorption coefficients within the band; used in conjunction with a generalized transmission function to yield the integrated transmission through an absorption band.
Industry:Weather
A situation in which the wind is flowing through a channel that becomes narrower at the far end causing the flow to be directed along the channel and to accelerate as the narrow end is approached. An example is wind is trapped in a valley that becomes narrower in the downwind direction. Air pollution emitted into valley air can be funneled in this manner.
Industry:Weather
