Meteorology

Meteorology

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

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Meteorology

A part of the World Ocean with little communication with the major ocean basins, in which the circulation is controlled by density differences. Two types of Mediterranean Seas are distinguished. In ...

Mediterranean outflow

Weather; Meteorology

The relatively saline water that flows out of the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar in a subsurface layer just above the sill depth. The outflow consists mainly of Levantine ...

Mediterranean lenses

Weather; Meteorology

Coherent subsurface masses of anticyclonically rotating, warm salty water in the Atlantic Ocean originating from the Mediterranean Sea. These mesoscale lenses have been observed to persist for up to ...

Mediterranean front

Weather; Meteorology

A front that forms in the low pressure zone that covers the Mediterranean between the cold air over Europe and the warm air over the Sahara.

Mediterranean Deep Water

Weather; Meteorology

A water mass that occupies the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea below a depth of 500 m. It is formed in winter by convection in the Ligurian Sea and the Balearic Basin when very cold Siberian air is ...

Mediterranean climate

Weather; Meteorology

Characterized by mild, wet winters and warm to hot, dry summers; typically occurs on the west side of continents between about 30° and 45° latitude.

Medieval Warm Period

Weather; Meteorology

A period of warmer climate in much of northern Europe, the North Atlantic, southern Greenland, and Iceland from about the tenth to thirteenth centuries A. D. , coinciding roughly with Europe's Middle ...