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Meteorology

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Multifunctional Transport Satellite (MTSAT)

Weather; Meteorology

A series of Japanese geostationary satellites designed to provide meteorological observations and air traffic control functions. The meteorological component of these three-axis stabilized satellites ...

muerto

Weather; Meteorology

A summer norther of Mexico.

Mozambique Current

Weather; Meteorology

One of the western boundary currents of the subtropical gyre in the southern Indian Ocean. It flows southward along the east coast of Mozambique through the Mozambique Channel and contributes about ...

M-region

Weather; Meteorology

Name given to a region of activity on the sun when the details and nature of that activity cannot be established. This term was used in the 1940s to account for recurrent geomagnetic storms with a ...

moutonnée

Weather; Meteorology

1. Ice-molded hummocks in relatively resistant bedrock. The characteristic streamline form of this glaciation is related to the direction of movement of the former glacier. 2. An ice field of polar ...

mountain–valley wind systems

Weather; Meteorology

The diurnal cycle of local winds in a mountain valley during clear or mostly clear periods of weak synoptic flow. The traditional components of the cycle are upslope (anabatic) winds, the daytime ...

mountain–plains wind systems

Weather; Meteorology

The diurnal cycle of local winds between a mountain or a mountain range and the adjacent or surrounding plains during periods of weak synoptic flow. Winds at lower elevations blow from the plains ...