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Meteorology

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Meddy

Weather; Meteorology

A short form for Mediterranean Eddy. Meddies are salt lenses containing high amounts of original Gibraltar Outflow Water in their interior. With spatial scales smaller than the internal Rossby ...

mechanical turbulence

Weather; Meteorology

Turbulence produced by shear flow.

mean Doppler velocity

Weather; Meteorology

The mean velocity in the Doppler spectrum; that is, the first moment of the Doppler spectrum expressed in terms of velocity. See Doppler spectral moments.

maximum possible sunshine duration

Weather; Meteorology

Time interval between sunrise and sunset.

Matanuska wind

Weather; Meteorology

The local name, taken from the Matanuska River, for a strong, gusty, northeast wind that occasionally occurs during the winter in the vicinity of Palmer, Alaska.

Montgomery streamfunction

Weather; Meteorology

The quantity ''gz + c p T'' measured on an isentropic surface where ''g'' is the acceleration of gravity, ''z'' the height of the isentropic surface, ''c p '' the specific heat of air at constant ...

Monte Carlo model

Weather; Meteorology

In radiation, the solution of radiative transfer by random walks of simulated photon trajectories through an absorbing, scattering, or emitting medium. Repetition of a large number (a million ...