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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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line vortex
Weather; Meteorology
An idealized, mathematical vortex consisting of the limit of the contraction of a vortex tube to a curve in space. The flow surrounding the curve is assumed irrotational.
lightship code
Weather; Meteorology
An international code assigned to a lightship to identify it as the source of meteorological observations. Lightships are considered fixed observation locations to distinguish ...
laminar boundary layer
Weather; Meteorology
An interfacial region in which flow is smooth and nonturbulent. Above a surface, a laminar layer will develop and fluid velocity will increase with distance from the surface, but ...
lightning detection network
Weather; Meteorology
An integrated array of lightning direction finders that provide information for trigonometric location of cloud-to-ground lightning discharges. Timing and direction information ...
local lightning-flash counter
Weather; Meteorology
An instrument for counting nearby lightning flashes.
linear instability
Weather; Meteorology
An instability that can be described (to first-order accuracy) by linear (or tangent linear) equations.
Kirchhoff vortex
Weather; Meteorology
An idealized vortex in an unbounded fluid with uniform vorticity inside an elliptical patch and zero vorticity outside. For an ellipse with semiaxes a and b and vorticity ω in its ...
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