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mesoscale cellular convection
Weather; Meteorology
A regular pattern of convective cells that can develop in an atmospheric boundary layer heated from below or radiatively cooled from cloud top. This phenomenon is readily observed in satellite ...
mesoscale
Weather; Meteorology
Pertaining to atmospheric phenomena having horizontal scales ranging from a few to several hundred kilometers, including thunderstorms, squall lines, fronts, precipitation bands in tropical and ...
mesophyte
Weather; Meteorology
A plant that grows under conditions of a medium amount of water; temperature is not a limiting factor.
mesopause
Weather; Meteorology
The top of the mesosphere and the base of the thermosphere. The mesopause is usually located at heights of 85–95 km, and is the site of the coldest temperatures in the atmosphere. Temperatures as low ...
mesolow
Weather; Meteorology
A low pressure area on the mesoscale. It has been used to refer both to features observed within convective storms and features even larger in scale.
mesojet
Weather; Meteorology
A mesoscale wind maximum. It typically may have an along-flow length scale of tens to hundreds of kilometers and a cross- flow length scale of < 100 km. Mesojets differ from planetary-scale jets, ...