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Of or pertaining to the state of the atmosphere and/or the science of monitoring, measuring and interpreting meteorological changes.
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Love wave
Weather; Meteorology
A type of seismic surface wave having a horizontal motion that is shear or transverse to the direction of propagation. Its velocity depends only on density and rigidity modulus, ...
k–ε closure
Weather; Meteorology
A type of one-and-a-half-order turbulence closure that retains forecast equations for mean (first-order statistics) variables such as potential temperature and wind components, ...
lysimeter
Weather; Meteorology
A type of evaporation gauge that consists of a tank or pan of soil placed in a field and manipulated so that the soil, water, thermal, and vegetative properties in the tank ...
Lambert conic projection
Weather; Meteorology
A type of conformal map in which features on a sphere are projected onto a cone. The cone can either be tangent to the sphere, for which contact is along one circle, or pass ...
katathermometer
Weather; Meteorology
A type of cooling-power anemometer based upon the principle that the time constant of a thermometer is a function of its ventilation. The form developed in the early nineteenth ...
light frost
Weather; Meteorology
A thin and more or less patchy deposit of hoarfrost on surface objects and vegetation. This term is used, inappropriately, for a light freeze.
Langmuir layer
Weather; Meteorology
A trace organic impurity in water with a polar or similar chemical group that disperses the material as a surface near monomolecular layer and influences surface properties as ...
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