Meteorology

Meteorology

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

Contributors in Meteorology

Meteorology

The degree to which a point on the earth's surface is in all respects subject to the influence of the sea; the opposite of continentality. Oceanicity usually refers to climate and its effects. One ...

frontal occlusion

Weather; Meteorology

1. In meteorology, the process of formation of an occluded front. Some persons restrict the use of this term to the usual case where the process begins at the apex of a wave cyclone; when the process ...

ocean weather station

Weather; Meteorology

As defined by the World Meteorological Organization, a specific maritime location occupied by a ship equipped and staffed to observe weather and sea conditions and report the observations by ...

oceanic meteorology

Weather; Meteorology

Study of the interaction between the sea and the atmosphere.

ocean station

Weather; Meteorology

As defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a specifically located area of ocean surface, roughly square, and 200 nautical miles on a side. An ocean station vessel on patrol is said ...

ocean mixing

Weather; Meteorology

Any process or series of processes by which parcels of ocean water with different properties are brought into intimate small-scale contact, so that molecular diffusion erases the differences between ...

ocean current

Weather; Meteorology

A movement of ocean water characterized by regularity, either of a cyclic nature or, more commonly, as a continuous stream flowing along a definable path. Three general classes, by cause, may be ...