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Meteorology

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semipermanent depression

Weather; Meteorology

A low pressure circulation feature on monthly mean charts that is often evident in the same location during different years. Examples include the Aleutian low and the Icelandic low.

South Atlantic convergence zone

A local maximum in cloudiness, precipitation, and low-level convergence that occurs in a northwest–southeast oriented swath extending across southeastern Brazil and the western South Atlantic. This ...

spirit thermometer

Weather; Meteorology

A liquid-in-glass thermometer that uses an organic substance such as alcohol as the thermometric liquid. This type of thermometer has a very low freezing point and a high coefficient of expansion. ...

streamline

Weather; Meteorology

A line with its tangent at any point in a fluid parallel to the instantaneous velocity of the fluid at that point. The differential equations of the streamline may be written ''d''r × v = 0, ...

squall line

Weather; Meteorology

A line of active thunderstorms, either continuous or with breaks, including contiguous precipitation areas resulting from the existence of the thunderstorms. The squall line is a type of mesoscale ...