Meteorology

Meteorology

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permanent gas

Weather; Meteorology

A gaseous component of the atmosphere with its mixing ratio nearly constant with time and height.

reflectance

Weather; Meteorology

A general term referring to the radiation reflected from, or scattered back through, a given surface in response to radiation incident on the surface with the same wavelength or wavelength range. ...

shine

Weather; Meteorology

A general term for a dry heiligenschein, moist heiligenschein, or sylvanshine.

patterned ground

Weather; Meteorology

A general term for any ground surface exhibiting a discernibly ordered, more- or-less symmetrical, morphological pattern of ground and, when present, vegetation.

spline function

Weather; Meteorology

A function composed of polynomial pieces defined on adjoining subintervals and with continuity conditions imposed on the function and its derivatives at all points including those connecting the ...

A function describing the dependence of scattered radiance on scattering angle. The phase function is a dimensionless and normalized version of the scattering function, such that the integral of the ...

recurrence formula

Weather; Meteorology

A formula that relates successive members of a sequence of terms or formulas to earlier members of the sequence, so that all members may be determined in order.