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Meteorology

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pontias

Weather; Meteorology

A mountain wind at Lyons, Department of Drôme, in southeastern France.

petit St. Bernard

Weather; Meteorology

A mountain wind of Haute Tarentaire in France.

reverse-oriented monsoon trough

Weather; Meteorology

A monsoon trough with a southwest–northeast orientation (which is the reverse of the normal northwest–southeast orientation of the trough axis). This type of monsoon trough often penetrates into ...

A modeling technique that describes the height dependence of meteorological parameters in the upper part of the atmospheric boundary layer by (''z''/''z'' 0 )(Ro) −1 , where ''z'' 0 is the surface ...

Rayleigh atmosphere

Weather; Meteorology

A model of the clear atmosphere used for light scattering calculations. A pure Rayleigh atmosphere contains only the permanent atmospheric gases that scatter light by Rayleigh scattering. It excludes ...

stochastic model

Weather; Meteorology

A model of a system that includes some sort of random forcing. In many cases, stochastic models are used to simulate deterministic systems that include smaller- scale phenomena that cannot be ...

slab model

Weather; Meteorology

A model of a surface or bottom mixed layer in which all quantities (scalar and vector) are assumed to be completely and instantaneously homogenized. The assumption is that the processes affecting the ...