- Industria: 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, ...
Relative vorticity in a constant-pressure surface, that is, expressed in a system of coordinates with pressure as an independent variable.
Industry:Weather
Reduced sulfur gas, formula H2S, emitted by rotting vegetation; also found in emissions from terrestrial wetlands, marshes, etc. H2S is a common reduced sulfur gas in terrestrial systems.
Industry:Weather
Referring to sound frequencies lower than those at the lower limit of average, unimpaired human hearing, about 16–30 Hz. Compare ultrasonic.
Industry:Weather
Referring usually to an object moving more than five times the speed of sound (Mach 5) in the gas or liquid surrounding it. Compare supersonic.
Industry:Weather
Referring to study of water features (oceans, lakes, rivers), including physical characteristics (oceanography, limnology) and elements affecting safe navigation.
Industry:Weather
Ratio of water loss for area of vegetative cover to evaporation from free water surface, that is, class-A evaporation pan.
Industry:Weather
Rainfall, measured at the onset of a storm, that includes interception and depression storage, prior to reaching the capacity of the depression storage.
Industry:Weather
Rate at which ice accretion occurs, expressed in units of depth per unit time.
Industry:Weather
Rate of infiltration calculated from records of rainfall and runoff. There are alternative values depending on the method of calculation.
Industry:Weather
Ratio of the cross-sectional area of the contour of the river bottom at a point in an open channel to the surface width, that is, D = A/B.
Industry:Weather
