Meteorology

Meteorology

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Lagrangian timescale

Weather; Meteorology

The mean time for an air parcel to be displaced from one location to another.

1. The time required for the earth to rotate once with respect to the moon, that is, the time between two successive upper transits of the moon. The mean lunar day is approximately 1. 035 times as ...

Loofah

Weather; Meteorology

World War II name for a polar nephelometer developed by the British Admiralty Research Laboratory.

marine climate

Weather; Meteorology

A regional climate under the predominant influence of the sea, characterized by relatively small seasonal variations and high atmospheric moisture content; the antithesis of a continental climate.

marine meteorology

Weather; Meteorology

The part of meteorology that deals mainly with the study of oceanic areas, including island and coastal regions. In particular it serves the practical needs of surface and air navigation over the ...

M component

Weather; Meteorology

In a lightning discharge, an increase in channel luminosity accompanied by a rapid electric field variation, itself called an M electric field change. The M components occur when the channel is ...