Meteorology

Meteorology

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jochwinde

Weather; Meteorology

The mountain-gap wind of the Tauern Pass in the Alps.

The most common of several names given to a significant decrease in sea surface temperature (“cold events”) in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific. La Niña is the counterpart to the El Niño ...

last glacial

Weather; Meteorology

The most recent time (15 000 to 80 000 years ago) during which continental glaciers covered subpolar regions and existed at elevations as much as 1000 m lower than today; corresponding to periods in ...

last interglacial

Weather; Meteorology

The most recent time (115 000 to 125 000 years ago) during which global temperatures were as high as or higher than in the postglacial, when continental glaciers were limited to the Arctic and ...

local Mach number

Weather; Meteorology

The Mach number of an isolated section of an airplane or its airframe, as contrasted with the free-stream Mach number.

logarithm

Weather; Meteorology

The logarithm of any positive number n to the base b is the power l to which that base must be raised in order to satisfy the identity n = bl: l = logbn. Logarithms to the base 10 are called ...

line average

Weather; Meteorology

The mean value of observations taken along a straight or curved line, such as along a highway or along an aircraft track. See average, ensemble average, area average, time average, ergodic condition.