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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 period of general expansion of glaciers variously defined as spanning from approximately 3000 to 2000 years ago or covering the last 4000–5000 years.
Industry:Weather
A code in which data on cloud systems are encoded and transmitted; it is a modified form of the international analysis code.
Industry:Weather
The specific 19-year period adopted by the National Ocean Service as the official time segment over which sea level observations are taken and reduced to obtain mean values for datum definition. The present epoch is 1960–78. It is reviewed annually for revision and must be actively considered for revision every 25 years.
Industry:Weather
Air quality standards regarding air pollution for the United States that are required to be met by industry and are enforceable by law. See emission standard.
Industry:Weather
An operational series of meteorological satellites. See POES.
Industry:Weather
A specialized microwave radar designed to measure surface winds over the oceans from an orbiting satellite.
Industry:Weather
A series of Nansen bottle water samples and associated temperature observations resulting from one release of a messenger.
Industry:Weather
A device used by oceanographers to obtain subsurface samples of seawater. The “bottle” is lowered by wire with its valves open at both ends. It is then closed in situ by allowing a weight (called a messenger) to slide down the wire and strike the reversing mechanism. This causes the bottle to turn upside down, closing the valves and reversing the reversing thermometers, which are mounted on the bottle in a special thermometer case. If, as is usually the case, a series of bottles are lowered, then the reversal of each bottle releases another messenger to actuate the bottle beneath it.
Industry:Weather
