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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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model calibration

Weather; Meteorology

Adjustment of the parameters of a mathematical or numerical model in order to optimize the agreement between observed data and the model's predictions.

model output statistics (MOS)

Weather; Meteorology

For a numerical weather prediction model, statistical relations between model-forecast variables and observed weather variables, used for either correction of model-forecast ...

model

Weather; Meteorology

A tool for simulating or predicting the behavior of a dynamical system like the atmosphere. Models can be based on subjective heuristic methods, statistics (see statistical ...

slab models

Weather; Meteorology

An approximation that treats the atmospheric boundary layer as though variables such as potential temperature, momentum, pollutants, and humidity were uniform with height. This ...

mode eddies

Weather; Meteorology

In oceanography, densely packed, irregularly oval- shaped high and low pressure centers roughly 400 km (240 miles) in diameter in which current intensities are typically tenfold ...

mock sun

Weather; Meteorology

A locally bright spot of light in the sky other than the sun itself. As such, it is usually applied to a parhelion, but has also been used for other spots such as paranthelia.

mode

Weather; Meteorology

One of several accepted measures of central tendency. It is the most probable value of a discrete variate, or the point of maximum probability density in the case of a continuous ...