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Meteorology

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NASA Scatterometer (Acronym NSCAT.)

Weather; Meteorology

A specialized microwave radar designed to measure surface winds over the oceans from an orbiting satellite.

Nansen cast

Weather; Meteorology

A series of Nansen bottle water samples and associated temperature observations resulting from one release of a messenger.

A device used by oceanographers to obtain subsurface samples of seawater. The “bottle” is lowered by wire with its valves open at both ends. It is then closed in situ by allowing a weight (called a ...

Myers rating

Weather; Meteorology

A relative measure of flood productivity. It is a numerical factor used to compare extreme floods on different streams, given by the extreme discharge (in cubic feet per second) on a stream divided ...

Munsell color chart

Weather; Meteorology

A radiometrically traceable color system based on the Commission International de l'Eclairage (CIE).

Muskingum method

Weather; Meteorology

An approximate hydrological method of flood routing through a reach of river, based on the equation of continuity and a storage equation expressing the linear dependence of the water volume in the ...

Munk boundary layer

Weather; Meteorology

A horizontal boundary layer in which lateral transport of momentum exerts a torque on fluid parcels, thereby allowing them to cross isolines of background potential vorticity. In many ocean general ...