Meteorology

Meteorology

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mares' tails

Weather; Meteorology

Long, well-defined wisps of cirrus clouds, thicker at one end than the other.

marching problem

Weather; Meteorology

A procedure for solving continuous differential equations via stepwise changes in the values of the independent variables. The dependent variables are computed at each step. The differential ...

marble crust

Weather; Meteorology

An extremely hard snow crust occurring in small round patches.

1. A geographic map on which meteorological conditions or elements are represented by figures, symbols, or isopleths. 2. Data values that are projected relative to a precise latitude–longitude grid ...

map projection

Weather; Meteorology

Any systematic arrangement of meridians and parallels portraying the curved surface of a sphere or spheroid upon a plane. The methods for generating the projection are often classified as geometric ...

main beam

Weather; Meteorology

The lobe in the radiation pattern of a directional antenna that includes the region of the maximum radiated power. The center of the main lobe defines the beam axis. The beamwidth in a given plane is ...

mamma

Weather; Meteorology

Hanging protuberances, like pouches, on the undersurface of a cloud. This supplementary cloud feature occurs mostly with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, altostratus, stratocumulus, and ...