Meteorology

Meteorology

A database of terms pertaining to the scientific study of the atmosphere.

Contributors in Meteorology

Meteorology

A snow water content sampler consisting of a hollow tube of steel or duralumin and having an internal diameter of 1. 485 in. So that each inch of water in the sample weighs one ounce. This sampler is ...

Montreal Protocol

Weather; Meteorology

(on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. ) An international agreement, signed in 1987, that serves to eliminate the use of compounds that have been linked to destruction of stratospheric ozone ...

Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU)

Weather; Meteorology

One of three sounders that comprise the TIROS- N Operational Vertical Sounder package on NOAA polar orbiter satellites. The primary function is to make temperature soundings in the presence of ...

microthermal

Weather; Meteorology

Of, or pertaining to, low temperature.

Michaelson actinograph

Weather; Meteorology

A pyrheliometer of the bimetallic type used to measure the intensity of direct solar radiation. The radiation is measured in terms of the angular deflection of a blackened bimetallic strip that is ...

Michael-riggs

Weather; Meteorology

Autumn gales occurring about Michaelmas (29 September).

meter–tonne–second system (mts system)

Weather; Meteorology

A system of physical units based upon the use of the meter, the metric ton (or tonne: 10 6 grams), and the second as elementary quantities of length, mass, and time, respectively. In this system, ...