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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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milky ice

Weather; Meteorology

A form of aircraft icing intermediate in all respects between clear ice and rime ice. It forms in the temperature range between −4° and −15°C.

millibar (mb)

Weather; Meteorology

A pressure unit of 1000 dynes cm −2 , convenient for reporting atmospheric pressures. The millibar does not fit into any commonly employed system of physical units. One millibar ...

migratory

Weather; Meteorology

In meteorology, commonly applied to pressure systems embedded in the westerlies and, therefore, moving in a general west-to-east direction.

mil

Weather; Meteorology

1. A unit of angular measurement, sometimes used in radar antennas, equal to 1/6400 of the circumference of a circle. 2. A unit of length, equal to 0. 001 in. , used in measuring ...

miejour

Weather; Meteorology

A warm, moist sea breeze from the south that sets in at midday in Provence, France, south of Mount Ventoux. In the Roussillon region the midday south wind (mitgjorn) is irregular ...

middle infrared

Weather; Meteorology

The portion of the electromagnetic spectrum lying between the near-infrared and the far infrared. This covers the wavelength range approximately from 4 to 15 μm, but usage varies. ...

midget tropical cyclone

Weather; Meteorology

A tropical cyclone with a radius to the outermost closed isobar of 100– 200 km. These cyclones can support hurricane-force winds with central pressures significantly higher than ...