- 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, ...
For a set of data arranged in order, values that partition the data into five groups, each containing one-fifth of the total number of observations. Also, values of a random variable that partition the variable range into five subintervals in such a way that the probability taken over each subinterval is equal to one-fifth.
Industry:Weather
For a given radarscope, the maximum distance from the radar that is represented on the face of the scope. The sweep length, therefore, specifies the scale of the scope display.
Industry:Weather
For a given point on a stream, a graph of discharge versus stage. See loop rating; Compare gauge relation.
Industry:Weather
For a given frequency of radiant energy, a complex quantity describing the medium through which the radiation is propagating. The real part is the specific attenuation, usually measured in decibels per unit path length, and the imaginary part is the phase constant or change in phase, in radians per unit path length.
Industry:Weather
For a given duration (such as 24 hours), the average time in years between the occurrence of rainfall rates of a given intensity. See'' also'' return period.
Industry:Weather
For a dynamical system, the property that small changes in the parameters do not qualitatively alter the system's behavior.
Industry:Weather
Fog that forms behind or after a frontal passage, usually a cold front. It forms from the evaporation of precipitation into a cold air mass that causes the air mass to reach its wet-bulb temperature.
Industry:Weather
Fog containing water droplets in liquid form that exists at temperatures colder than 0°C; a supercooled cloud immediately above the surface.
Industry:Weather
