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General weather
Of or pertaining to weather
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zonal index
Weather; General weather
The measure of the strength of the westerly winds of the middle latitudes. It is expressed as the horizontal pressure difference between 35 degrees and 55 degrees latitude, or as the corresponding ...
altimeter setting
Weather; General weather
The pressure value to which an aircraft altimeter scale is set so that it will indicate the altitude above mean sea level of an aircraft on the ground at the location for which the value was ...
frost
Weather; General weather
The covering of ice crystals that forms by direct sublimation on exposed surfaces whose temperature is below freezing.
reflectivity
Weather; General weather
A measure of the process by which a surface can turn back a portion of incident radiation back into the medium through which the radiation approached. Reflectivity of a given surface is know as ...
altitude
Weather; General weather
In meteorology, the measure of a height of an airborne object in respect to a constant pressure surface or above mean sea level.
frozen precipitation
Weather; General weather
Precipitation that reaches the ground in a frozen state. Examples include snow, snow pellets, snow grains, ice crystals, ice pellets, and hail.
refraction
Weather; General weather
The bending of light or radar beam as it passes through a zone of contrasting properties, such as atmospheric density, water vapor, or temperature.
