Meteorology

Meteorology

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

Industry: Weather

Add a new term

Contributors in Meteorology

Become a Contributors

Meteorology

runway elevation

Weather; Meteorology

1. Same as airport elevation. 2. The actual elevation of the touchdown zone of a runway. It is published on the IFR Approach Plates.

polar anticyclone

Weather; Meteorology

1. Same as arctic high. 2. Same as subpolar high.

pluvial

Weather; Meteorology

1. Pertaining to rain, or more broadly, to precipitation, particularly to an abundant amount thereof. Compare hyetal, glacial. 2. Pertaining to an interval of geologic time that was marked by a ...

1. Overturning, quasi-two-dimensional circulations parallel to mean wind in the layer they occupy in which individual particles move downwind in a helical motion. In the atmosphere, boundary layer ...

pulse modulation

Weather; Meteorology

1. Modulation of a carrier signal by a train of pulses, as in pulsed radar. 2. Use of a series of pulses modulated to carry information. The modulation may involve changes of pulse amplitude, ...

singular point

Weather; Meteorology

1. Of a differential equation, a point at which the coefficients are not expandable in a Taylor series. 2. Of a function of a complex variable, a point at which the function does not have a ...

scan line

Weather; Meteorology

1. One sweep of a radiometer across the area or volume being viewed. Many radiometers on satellites scan across the earth from horizon to horizon. 2. The narrow strip that is swept by the ...