Meteorology

Meteorology

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rule-based system

Weather; Meteorology

A knowledge-based system that uses rules as its knowledge representation. See'' also'' expert system.

semantic network

Weather; Meteorology

A labeled, directed graph with nodes representing physical or conceptual objects and labeled arcs representing relations between objects. This permits the use of generic rules, inheritance, and ...

soil moisture tension

Weather; Meteorology

it is defined as the force per unit area that must be exerted in order to extract water from soil.A measure of the amount of work that must be done (suction that would need to be applied) to move ...

pennant

Weather; Meteorology

A means of representing wind speed in the plotting of a synoptic chart; it is a triangular flag, or pennant, drawn pointing toward lower pressure from a wind-direction shaft. In the five-and-ten ...

A mathematical or computational description of radiative transfer that produces radiation products for specified atmospheric conditions. They may be relatively simple approximations, as in the two ...

Streeter–Phelps equation

Weather; Meteorology

A mathematical model of the variation of dissolved oxygen in a stream due to a point load of waste discharge. The waste discharge can be characterized by biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) or chemical ...