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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, ...
A termination device permitting pressure sensors to measure the true atmospheric pressure in the presence of winds.
Industry:Weather
A term used to refer to cloud features (such as mamma, virga, pileus, etc. ) that are supplementary to other clouds.
Industry:Weather
A term with a variety of meanings usually used to describe motion, a series of data, or a mathematical function the behavior of which suggests a recurring pattern but fails to conform to the strict meaning of periodicity in that an ordered set of values does not repeat at regular intervals of time or space.
Industry:Weather
A term used to describe the mass of sediment in a fluid per unit volume of the fluid. For fluvial sediment, less commonly as the mass of sediment per mass of water as expressed by percent by weight. The sediment concentration is often expressed as kilograms of sediment per cubic meter of water, or more commonly, in terms of milligrams (mg) of sediment per liter of water.
Industry:Weather
A term used by old-timers living in the coastal plain of Southern California to describe summer episodes of hot, humid weather associated with widespread middle and high cloudiness and thunderstorm activity, sometimes intense, over the mountains and deserts to the east. Summer thunderstorms, unusual over the coastal plain of southern California, occur during such episodes. Sonora weather is a particular manifestation of the Southwest monsoon, occurring when the more typical summer monsoonal flow of midlevel moisture into Arizona and New Mexico (from Sonora State, Mexico, and points south) is shunted westward.
Industry:Weather
A term used to describe a gas occurring naturally or produced anthropogenically that affects atmospheric radiation by absorption or emission. See also greenhouse gases.
Industry:Weather
A term originating in design of stable irrigation canals. A stream channel is said to be in regime if it is transporting water and sediment in equilibrium such that there is neither scour of the channel bed and banks nor sediment deposition in the channel.
Industry:Weather
A term generally used for grids with points that lie along lines of latitude and longitude when some of the points at higher latitudes are removed. Due to the convergence of the meridians, points along a parallel of latitude placed at regular angular intervals of longitude will become closer and closer together in geometric distance as the poles are approached. If points are removed at higher latitudes, the geometric distance between the remaining points does not become extremely small. See variable resolution model.
Industry:Weather
A temperature scale with the degree of the Fahrenheit temperature scale and the zero point of the Kelvin temperature scale. The ice point is thus 491. 69 degrees Rankine and the boiling point of water is 671. 69 degrees Rankine.
Industry:Weather
A temporary hydrometric station supplementing the data from permanent stations; usually used for specific projects.
Industry:Weather
