- 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, ...
Instrument for measuring the total irradiance (solar and atmospheric) on a horizontal surface from a solid angle of 2π.
Industry:Weather
Instruments that measure the pressure below the sea surface; this pressure may be converted to sea level if the air pressure, the gravitational acceleration, and the water density are known.
Industry:Weather
Intervals of wet climate within the Pleistocene during which lake levels were high; generally corresponding to glacials in regions with Mediterranean climate and to interglacials in regions with monsoonal climate.
Industry:Weather
Irrotational, inviscid, free-slip flow for which Bernoulli's equation applies along a streamline.
Industry:Weather
Land squalls descending with great force from ravines and valleys in high land in Italy; they extend only a short distance off the west coast.
Industry:Weather
Large breakers formed on a beach, usually as a result of an incoming swell that has traveled a long distance across the ocean. See'' also'' long-crested wave.
Industry:Weather
Large reaction chambers in which chemical reactions associated with smog chemistry are studied. Typically, mixtures of a hydrocarbon in air containing traces of nitric oxide are irradiated, and the rate of buildup of ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and organic products is measured and recorded.
Industry:Weather
Lateral movement of the center of gravity of a ship. See heave, surge, ship motion.
Industry:Weather
Light from the sun; also called sunshine. The majority of the energy from the sun is divided into three parts: ultraviolet radiation, wavelengths less than about 0. 4 μm; visible radiation, wavelengths between about 0. 4 and 0. 7 μm; infrared radiation, wavelengths greater than about 0. 7 μm. There are conflicting conventions as to whether all three regions are referred to as light, or whether that term should only be applied to the visible portion of the spectrum. The ultraviolet radiation is sometimes called short waves and the infrared region, long waves.
Industry:Weather
Infrequently, any energy propagated by a physical quantity governed by a wave equation; units are joules.
Industry:Weather
