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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, ...
Any chart on which isopleths of the mean value of a given meteorological element are drawn. Compare normal chart.
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Mean of the absolute values of the differences between the daily means of a climate element on two successive days.
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The average level of all high waters at a place over a 19-year period. See mean sea level.
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Average spring tide high water level, averaged over a sufficiently long period.
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A tidal datum; the average of the higher of the two high water heights of each tidal day, averaged over the U. S. National Tidal Datum Epoch.
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The average time during which anything can be said to reside within a specified region or to exist unchanged; for example, the mean life of a chemical species in the atmosphere, the mean life of a radioactive nucleus, the mean life of photons in a cloud. For processes following the same exponential law as radioactive decay, mean life is related simply to half-life.
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A tidal datum; the average spring low water level, averaged over a sufficiently long period.
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A tidal datum; the average of the lower of the two low water heights of each tidal day observed over the U. S. National Tidal Datum Epoch.
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