Meteorology

Meteorology

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open channel flow

Weather; Meteorology

Flow of a fluid with its surface exposed to the atmosphere.

open cells

Weather; Meteorology

The regular array of clear patches with a connecting lattice of cloud that comprises a layer cloud.

In U. S. Weather observing practice, the amount (in tenths) of sky cover that completely hides all that might be above it; opposed to transparent sky cover. In the case of an obscuration or partial ...

opacus

Weather; Meteorology

A variety of cloud (sheet, layer, or patch), the greater part of which is sufficiently dense to obscure the sun (betweeen 10 and 20 optical depths). This variety is found in the genera altocumulus, ...

onshore wind

Weather; Meteorology

A wind blowing from water onto land; the wind may be a result of heating differences between land and water or related to synoptic weather patterns.

one-way entrainment process

Weather; Meteorology

At the interface between a turbulent boundary layer and a laminar boundary layer, laminar air is incorporated into the turbulent layer, but none of the turbulent air is incorporated into the laminar ...

one-dimensional model

Weather; Meteorology

A mathematical model that simulates variations in chemical composition along one spatial coordinate, usually altitude, as a function of time. One-dimensional models are usually used to examine the ...