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machine learning
Weather; Meteorology
The process by which computer systems can be directed to improve their performance over time. Examples are neural networks and genetic algorithms.
Marsden chart
Weather; Meteorology
A system introduced by Marsden early in the nineteenth century for showing the distribution of meteorological data on a chart, especially over the oceans. A Mercator map projection is used, the world ...
Marsden square
Weather; Meteorology
A system that divides a Mercator chart of the world into squares of 10° latitude by 10° longitude. Each square is numbered and then subdivided into 100 one-degree squares numbered from 00 to 99. ...
Marshall–Palmer relation
Weather; Meteorology
The ''Z''–''R'' relationship developed by J. S. Marshall and W. M. Palmer (1948) consistent with an exponential drop-size distribution. The relationship is ''Z'' = 200''R'' 1. 6 , where ''Z'' (mm6 ...
Marvin sunshine recorder
Weather; Meteorology
A sunshine recorder of the type in which the timescale is supplied by a chronograph. It consists of two bulbs, one of which is blackened, that communicate through a glass tube of small diameter. The ...
Markov chain
Weather; Meteorology
A stochastic process with a finite number of states in which the probability of occurrence of a future state is conditional only upon the current state; past states are inconsequential. In ...
