Meteorology

Meteorology

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

Contributors in Meteorology

Meteorology

A numerical modeling procedure that makes use of random numbers to simulate processes that involve an element of chance. In Monte Carlo simulation, a particular experiment is repeated many times with ...

Moll thermopile

Weather; Meteorology

A thermopile used in some types of radiation instruments. Alternate junctions of series-connected manganan–constantan thermocouples are embedded in a shielded nonconducting plate having a large heat ...

mobile ship station

Weather; Meteorology

Weather station onboard a moving ship.

Moazagotl

Weather; Meteorology

A stationary bank of cirriform cloud marking the upper portion of the system of lenticular clouds formed in the lee wave produced by flow across the Sudeten Mountains in southeastern Germany; a type ...

Moazagotl wind

Weather; Meteorology

The strong wind blowing across a mountain crest, responsible for the formation of the Moazagotl cloud.

mixed Rossby–gravity wave

Weather; Meteorology

An eastward propagating equatorial wave that has a meridional velocity component symmetric about the equator and a zonal velocity component anti-symmetric about the MCC. For large positive (eastward) ...