Meteorology

Meteorology

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map plotting

Weather; Meteorology

In meteorology, the process of transcribing weather information onto maps, diagrams, etc. It usually refers specifically to decoding synoptic reports and entering those data in conventional ...

One of several constant-pressure levels in the atmosphere for which a complete evaluation of data derived from upper-air observations is required. Currently the mandatory pressure levels are 1000 mb, ...

mao mao yuh

Weather; Meteorology

(Chinese for “nothing serious. ”) Drizzle in northern China.

manometer

Weather; Meteorology

An instrument for measuring differences of pressure. The weight of a column of liquid enclosed in a tube is balanced by the pressures applied at its opposite ends, and the pressure difference is ...

mandatory level

Weather; Meteorology

mammatus

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 ...