Meteorology

Meteorology

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

Contributors in Meteorology

Meteorology

1. In general, the outer boundary of a snow-covered area. It has at least two specific applications: 1) the actual lower limit of the snow cap on high terrain at any given time; 2) the ever-changing ...

synoptic

Weather; Meteorology

1. In general, pertaining to or affording an overall view. In meteorology, this term has become somewhat specialized in referring to the use of meteorological data obtained simultaneously over a wide ...

reflector

Weather; Meteorology

1. In general, any object that reflects incident energy; usually a device designed for specific reflection characteristics. 2. The part of a radio or radar antenna system that focuses and directs the ...

resistance

Weather; Meteorology

1. In general, any force that tends to oppose motion. 2. Same as drag. 3. In electricity, the opposition offered by a substance to the passage of an electric current; the reciprocal of conductance. ...

quadrature

Weather; Meteorology

1. In astronomy, the arrangement of the earth, sun, and another planet or the moon in which the angle subtended at the earth between the sun and the third body, in the plane of the ecliptic, is 90°. ...

radioactive gas

Weather; Meteorology

1. In atmospheric electricity, any one of the three radioactive inert gases, radon, thoron, and actinon, that contributes to atmospheric ionization by virtue of the ionizing effect of the alpha ...

single scattering

Weather; Meteorology

1. In a propagation medium consisting of a dispersion of scattering particles, the situation whereby the electromagnetic field in the vicinity of any particle is unaffected by scattering from the ...