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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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lightning arrester

Weather; Meteorology

Any device designed to carry to the ground (to “ground”) the short-duration surge currents that appear on power lines and telephone lines during severe thunderstorms. Early forms ...

Lagrangian equations

Weather; Meteorology

Any of the fundamental equations of hydrodynamics expressed in Lagrangian coordinates. In the Lagrangian description, the independent variables are time and a set of particle ...

layers

Weather; Meteorology

Any of a number of altitude regions found in the atmosphere, each of which can be characterized by unique physical or chemical properties. These layers can exist as the result of ...

luminescence

Weather; Meteorology

Any emission of light at temperatures below that required for incandescence.

level of no motion

Weather; Meteorology

An ocean surface at a depth where the current speed is assumed to be zero. The determination of currents through the dynamic method gives only relative speeds, therefore an ocean ...

Lambrecht's polymeter

Weather; Meteorology

An obsolete device that combines a mercury barometer and a hair hygrometer in a manner such that the dewpoint temperature is derived.

kriging

Weather; Meteorology

An interpolation procedure used to estimate a variable at unsampled locations using weighted sums of the variable at neighboring sample points. The procedure is designed to ...