Weather

Weather

Of or pertaining to the state of the atmosphere and/or the science of monitoring, measuring and interpreting meteorological changes.

9Categories 93553Terms

Add a new term

Contributors in Weather

Become a Contributors

Weather > Meteorology

moisture inversion

Weather; Meteorology

An increase with height of the moisture content of air; specifically, the layer through which this increase occurs, or the altitude at which the increase begins. See inversion.

moisture equivalent

Weather; Meteorology

The weight percentage of water (with respect to dry weight) retained by an initially saturated 1-cm-thick soil sample after it has been subjected to a centrifugal force 1000 times ...

moisture pooling

Weather; Meteorology

The development of an area in the boundary layer (e.g., often observed on surface or 850-mb charts) where moisture values become higher than in the surrounding region. Moisture ...

moisture adjustment

Weather; Meteorology

The adjustment of observed precipitation in a storm by the ratio of the estimated probable maximum precipitable water over the basin under study to the actual precipitable water ...

saturation adiabat

Weather; Meteorology

On a thermodynamic diagram, an isopleth of equivalent potential temperature or pseudoequivalent potential temperature. Moist adiabats on most diagrams are drawn for the ...

moisture

Weather; Meteorology

In meteorology, a general term usually referring to the water vapor content of the atmosphere, or to the total water substance (gaseous, liquid, and solid) present in a given ...

saturation-adiabatic process

Weather; Meteorology

An adiabatic process for which the air is saturated and may contain liquid water. A distinction is made between the reversible process, in which total water is conserved, and the ...