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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, ...
In general terms, a quantitative measure of the ability of an assumed functional form to fit a given set of data. In meteorology, “goodness of fit” usually refers to the size of the residual variance for a regression function used to fit a set of data. See regression.
Industry:Weather
In general, any cyclone associated with a front; often used synonymously with wave cyclone or with extratropical cyclone (as opposed to tropical cyclone, which is nonfrontal).
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In aviation terminology, the visibility from an aircraft along its line of flight. Forward visibility is important to aircraft crew members because it determines the maximum forward distance at which other aircraft can be seen. The companion terms for other aspects of visibility from aircraft are vertical visibility and slant visibility.
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In climate modeling, the practice of modifying the fluxes (of heat and water) between the atmosphere and ocean in coupled atmosphere–ocean models. This modification is designed to minimize the climate drift that occurs during model integration. These flux adjustments are typically a function of location and season.
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In aviation terminology, the horizontal visibility observed at the ground, that is, surface visibility or control-tower visibility.
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Height of water surface above a gauge datum. It is used interchangeably with the terms stage and water level; gauge height is more appropriate when used with a reading on a gauge.
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Horizontal frictionless flow in which isobars and streamlines coincide, or equivalently, in which the tangential acceleration is everywhere zero. The balance of normal forces (pressure force, Coriolis force, centrifugal force) is then given by the gradient wind equation. Important special cases of gradient flow, in which two of the normal forces predominate over the third, are geostrophic flow, inertial flow, and cyclostrophic flow.
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