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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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night wind

Weather; Meteorology

Dry squalls that occur at night in southwest Africa and the Congo. It is likely that this term is loosely applied to other diurnal local winds such as mountain wind, land breeze, ...

neutral wave

Weather; Meteorology

In hydrodynamic instability theory, a wave solution the amplitude of which does not change with time; it neither grows nor decays. In contrast, the amplitude of a growing mode (or ...

newton

Weather; Meteorology

A unit of force that, when applied to a body of mass one kilogram, gives it an acceleration of one meter per second squared (1 N = 1 kg m s −2 ).

new snow

Weather; Meteorology

1. Recently fallen snow in which the original form of the snow crystals is recognizable. 2. The amount of snow fallen within the previous 24 hours.

nevada

Weather; Meteorology

A cold wind descending from a mountain glacier (glacier wind) or snowfield, for example, in the higher valleys of Ecuador.

neutrosphere

Weather; Meteorology

The atmospheric shell from the earth's surface upward in which the atmospheric constituents are for the most part not ionized, that is, electrically neutral. The region of ...

neutron-scattering method

Weather; Meteorology

Technique used for the indirect measurement of soil moisture content based on the thermalization (slowing) and scattering of emitted neutron radiation upon encountering hydrogen ...