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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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jetlet

Weather; Meteorology

Sometimes used for “small” jet stream. The term very likely originated to describe relatively small regions of maximum wind, especially those analyzed as jet streams because the ...

lake-effect snowstorm

Weather; Meteorology

Snowstorm occurring near or downwind from the shore of a lake resulting from the warming (destabilization) and moistening of relatively cold air during passage over a warm body of ...

local free-convection similarity

Weather; Meteorology

Similar to mixed-layer similarity as a way to find empirically universal relationships between boundary layer variables, except using a general height z in place of the depth of ...

local similarity

Weather; Meteorology

Similar to local free-convection similarity, except designed for the statically stable boundary layer. Also known as z-less scaling, because the appropriate length scale does not ...

longwave

Weather; Meteorology

Shorthand for longwave radiation.

multivariate signal

Weather; Meteorology

A signal that consists of several distinguishable components. A multivariate signal may contain information that describes both the temporal and spatial variability of a single ...

multivariate objective analysis

Weather; Meteorology

An analysis procedure based on derivation of an analytic formula containing two or more variables to approximate values of a physical quantity at specified data points. The ...