Meteorology

Meteorology

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perfect fluid

Weather; Meteorology

1. Sometimes used for an inviscid, incompressible, homogeneous fluid. 2. Same as inviscid fluid. 3. See ideal gas.

slush

Weather; Meteorology

1. Snow or ice on the ground that has been reduced to a soft watery mixture by rain, warm temperature, and/or chemical treatment. 2. Same as sludge.

split window

Weather; Meteorology

1. Segmentation of a remote sensing window channel into smaller increments of wavelength. 2. A technique used to calculate land and sea surface temperatures, where corrections are made for the ...

1. See storm surge. 2. See surge current. 3. See surge line. 4. In hydrology, a sudden change in discharge resulting from the opening or closing of a gate that controls the flow in a channel, or by ...

pressure ridge

Weather; Meteorology

1. See ridge. 2. A ridge of ice, up to 35 m (100 ft) high and sometimes several kilometers long, in pressure ice.

sleet

Weather; Meteorology

1. See ice pellets. 2. In British terminology, and colloquially in some parts of the United States, precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.