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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, ...
Fog formed by orographic lifting of moist air to condensation over a hill. See orographic fog.
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Following C. W. Thornthwaite's 1931 terminology, a name sometimes given to a snow forest climate. See humid climate, microthermal climate.
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Distinct zones that have cation and anion concentrations of diagnostic chemical character of water solutions in hydrologic systems, which is describable within defined composition categories.
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Emergency announcement of information on an anticipated, potentially dangerous, hydrologic event. An example is a flood warning of an impending high flow in a channel.
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Energy transfer as a consequence of temperature differences. See also convection, conduction, radiation.
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Disintegration of an ice cover on land, river, or coastal waters as a result of thermal and mechanical processes. See breakup.
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Flow of water into a stream, lake, reservoir, container, basin, aquifer system, etc.
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Firn that has become permeated by meltwater and then refrozen; a late stage in the formation of land ice from snow.
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Describes the predicted position of ice boundaries and expected ice phenomena (ice concentration, distribution, stage of development, thickness and direction of drift, number and size of icebergs) for a specified period and for a specified locality, based on forecast meteorological and oceanographic conditions and the regional ice climatology. An ice forecast is often issued to cover the period between the current ice analysis and the next scheduled ice analysis.
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