Meteorology

Meteorology

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overland flow

Weather; Meteorology

Water flowing over the ground surface toward a stream channel or water body. Upon reaching the channel or water body, it is called surface runoff.

overlap

Weather; Meteorology

The area common to two successive satellite images or scan swaths along the same or adjacent flight or orbital strips. The amount of overlap is expressed as a percentage of image area or scanned ...

A condition existing when an air mass aloft is in motion relative to another air mass of greater density at the surface. This term is usually applied in the case of warm air ascending the surface of ...

overseeding

Weather; Meteorology

A cloud seeding operation in which an excess of nucleating material is released over that required to produce the desired effect. As the term is normally used, the excess is relative to that amount ...

overflow

Weather; Meteorology

1. Excess water that spills over the ordinary confines of a body of water. 2. A current exiting across the sill of a basin.

optimum flight

Weather; Meteorology

An aircraft flight so planned and navigated that it is completed under the optimum conditions of minimum time and minimum exposure to dangerous flying weather. An optimum flight often is not a ...