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potential predictability
Weather; Meteorology
A hypothetical level of predictability that would be obtained under certain assumptions regarding errors in the knowledge of current and past states of the system, and the model used to predict the ...
Pascal's law
Weather; Meteorology
A hydrostatic principle that pressure applied to an enclosed fluid is transmitted undiminished to every portion of the fluid and to the walls of the containing vessel.
semipermanent anticyclone
Weather; Meteorology
A high pressure circulation feature on monthly mean charts that is often evident in the same location during different years. Examples include the North American high and the Siberian high.
salt haze
Weather; Meteorology
A haze created by the presence of finely divided particles of sea salt in the air, usually derived from the evaporation of sea spray.
sun cross
Weather; Meteorology
A halo in which vertical and horizontal streaks of light extend from the sun. Most of those observed probably result from the combination of a parhelic circle and a sun pillar.
sun pillar
Weather; Meteorology
A halo in the form of a pillar of light extending above or below the sun and usually seen when the sun is low in the sky. It is explained by reflection by the sides of columnar ice crystals falling ...
Parry arcs
Weather; Meteorology
A halo in the form of arcs that appear outside the upper and lower tangent arcs to the halo of 22°. The columnar crystals have their long axes horizontal, which by itself would produce the tangent ...
