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Mindanao Current

Weather; Meteorology

One of the western boundary currents of the Pacific Ocean. It flows southward with great speed along the island of Mindanao and carries a transport of 25–35 Sv (25–35 × 10 6 m 3 s −1 ) from the ...

A recirculation system between the North Equatorial Current and the North Equatorial Countercurrent in the extreme west of the Pacific Ocean, east of Mindanao. The circulation is counterclockwise, ...

Milankovitch Pleistocene climate variation

Weather; Meteorology

The major oscillation in the Pleistocene epoch, which, according to Milankovitch, was astronomical in origin.

Milankovitch solar radiation curve

Weather; Meteorology

A radiation curve that combines the systematic effects of the precession of the equinoxes, the tilt of the earth's rotational axis, and the eccentricity of the earth's orbit. Early in the twentieth ...

Milankovitch theory

Weather; Meteorology

The theory, introduced by the Serbian mathematician M. Milankovitch during the first half of the twentieth century, that variations in the precession of the equinoxes and solstices, the varying tilt ...

Milankovitch oscillations

Weather; Meteorology

Variations in climate that are due to variations in the receipt of solar radiation associated with 1) the precession of the equinoxes and solstices; 2) the varying tilt of the earth's rotational ...

Mie scattering

Weather; Meteorology

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by homogeneous spheres of arbitrary size, named after Gustav Mie (1868–1957), whose theory of 1908 explains the process. See Mie theory; compare Rayleigh ...