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Weather

Of or pertaining to the state of the atmosphere and/or the science of monitoring, measuring and interpreting meteorological changes.

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Lagrangian hydrodynamic equations

Weather; Meteorology

Hydrodynamic equations of motion, using coordinates of fluid particles as the dependent variables. The independent variables are time and coordinates representing the fluid ...

Lyman alpha emission line

Weather; Meteorology

Feature in the emission spectrum of solar radiation, identified with neutral hydrogen, that occurs at a wavelength of 121. 567 nm. Because of the extremely low absorption cross ...

law of storms

Weather; Meteorology

Historically, the general statement of 1) the manner in which the winds of a cyclone rotate about the cyclone's center, and 2) the way that the entire disturbance moves over the ...

karema wind

Weather; Meteorology

A violent east wind on Lake Tanganyika in Africa.

lamellar vector

Weather; Meteorology

A vector that may be represented as the gradient or ascendent of a scalar, in symbols, ∇α. Thus, a lamellar vector field is irrotational.

langley

Weather; Meteorology

A unit of energy per unit area once commonly employed in radiation theory; equal to one gram-calorie per square centimeter. The langley is almost always used in conjunction with ...