- Industry: 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, ...
Generally, an area that is particularly favorable for the formation of convection in the lower atmosphere, or one characterized by convective activity at a given time.
Industry:Weather
Generally, a fairly well-defined mass of cloud observed at a distance; a cloud bank covers an appreciable portion of the horizon sky, but does not extend overhead.
Industry:Weather
Generally circular motion of a mass in the same sense as that of the earth, that is, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, undefined at the equator.
Industry:Weather
General term for manifestations of convection in the atmosphere, alluding particularly to the development of convective clouds and resulting weather phenomena, such as showers, thunderstorms, squalls, hail, tornadoes, etc.
Industry:Weather
Fuzzy logic term for a variable that takes on a precise value as opposed to a fuzzy membership value between 0 and 1. Crisp variables must be measurable quantities.
Industry:Weather
Freezing of the water in a river or shallow lake from the surface to the bed.
Industry:Weather
Form of absorption spectroscopy in which a reagent that bonds with the species of interest is added to a liquid solution, resulting in a change in color of the solution. The method has been applied, for example, in the determination of the content of certain metals in atmospheric aerosols.
Industry:Weather
Free waves, having characteristics of both Kelvin waves and shelf waves, that are trapped in the vicinity of the coast.
Industry:Weather
For the rth ranked datum (from largest to smallest) from a sample of size n, the quotient r/n. The California plotting position was among the first plotting positions developed and is not recommended where probabilities of events less than the minimum in the sample are needed. See plotting position, probability paper.
Industry:Weather
For a given flow depth in an open channel, the discharge that will cause critical flow conditions at this depth.
Industry:Weather
