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Meteorology

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normal water

Weather; Meteorology

A seawater preparation, the chlorinity of which lies between 19. 30 and 19. 50 grams per kilogram (or per mille) and has been determined to within ±0. 001 per mille. Normal water is used as a ...

normal stresses

Weather; Meteorology

The components of the stress tensor that are normal to the faces of the fluid element.

normal modes

Weather; Meteorology

A solution of the tangent linear model of a set of differential equations. Usually a wave type structure is assumed of the form ''e ik(x − t) '' and solutions with imaginary ''k'' are considered.

normal population

Weather; Meteorology

In statistical terminology, a collection of quantities having a normal distribution.

A method that uses model normal modes to adjust the initial conditions of an NWP model so that high-frequency oscillations are removed from the subsequent forecast. The most successful procedure is ...

noise factor

Weather; Meteorology

A number by which the performance of a radio receiver can be specified. Essentially, the noise figure is the ratio of the noise generated by the actual receiver to the noise output of an “ideal” ...