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Meteorology

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smoke

Weather; Meteorology

1. Foreign particulate matter in the atmosphere resulting from combustion processes; a type of lithometeor. When smoke is present, the disk of the sun at sunrise and sunset appears very red, and ...

snowfield

Weather; Meteorology

1. Generally, an extensive area of snow-covered ground or ice, relatively smooth and uniform in appearance and composition. This term is often used to describe such an area in otherwise coarse, ...

phase

Weather; Meteorology

1. For any type of periodic motion (e.g., rotation, oscillation) a point or stage in the period to which the motion has advanced with respect to a given initial point. Specifically, the phase or ...

surface hoar

Weather; Meteorology

1. Fernlike ice crystals formed directly on a snow surface by deposition; a type of hoarfrost. 2. Hoarfrost that has grown primarily in two dimensions, as on a window or other smooth surface.

stagnation area

Weather; Meteorology

1. For air blowing toward an object such as the wall of a building, the point that marks the center of divergence of air along that wall as the streamlines split to flow around the building. The ...

shortwave radiation

Weather; Meteorology

1. Energy in the visible and near-visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (0. 4–1. 0 μm in wavelength). 2. In meteorology, a term used loosely to distinguish radiation in the visible and ...

1. Atmospheric circulation features of cyclonic scale. Use of the term is usually reserved for distinguishing between the various dimensions of atmospheric circulation, that is, primary circulation, ...