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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, ...
One who intercepts, by car, van, or truck, severe convective storms for sport or for scientific research. Storm chasing is particularly popular in the Plains of the United States.
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One of the western boundary currents of the North Pacific subtropical gyre. It flows northward from just north of Mindanao (10°N) to Taiwan where it continues as the Kuroshio. It is fed from the North Equatorial Current, from which it continues to entrain water along its way.
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One of the semipermanent highs of the general circulation, centered at about 25°S, 15°W.
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One of the eastern boundary currents of the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Flowing southward along the Portuguese coast, it is the continuation of the Azores Current and continues as the Canary Current. Because of its location outside the trade-wind belt, it is not associated with significant upwelling.
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One of any number of devices used to measure the permeability of porous media.
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On a thermodynamic diagram, a line representing a pseudoadiabatic expansion of an air parcel.
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Of, or pertaining to, the outer perimeter of a glacier, particularly to the fringe areas surrounding the great continental glaciers of the geologic ice ages. Thus, “periglacial weathering” is said to have produced certain characteristic land forms.
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Often the ratio of any reflected to incident irradiance. This term is sometimes qualified, as in bidirectional (or biangular) reflectivity, meaning the ratio of reflected radiance (in a particular direction) to the incident radiance (in a particular direction). See'' also'' reflection coefficient, radar reflectivity, radar reflectivity factor.
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One of a set of numbers on the random-variable axis that divides a probability distribution into 100 equal areas; it is a quantile equal to one one-hundredth of a total population.
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