Meteorology

Meteorology

A database of terms pertaining to the scientific study of the atmosphere.

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Meteorology

A process of charge separation associated with the mechanical disruption of liquid drops and believed to be based on the electrical double layer at the air–water interface. Spray electrification is ...

splintering

Weather; Meteorology

A process from which ice splinters are produced due to the pressure buildup in the ice shell when a drop is freezing, resulting from the ice-water expansion on phase change. This causes the shell to ...

proton

Weather; Meteorology

A positively charged subatomic particle with a rest mass of 1. 67262 x 10 −27 kg, slightly less than that of the neutron and about 1836 times that of the electron. Atomic nuclei are composed of ...

standpipe storage precipitation gauge

Weather; Meteorology

A precipitation gauge comprising a tall pipe 30. 5 cm (12 in. ) in diameter designed especially to measure the water content of snow in remote mountainous areas for unattended operation; part of a ...

production system

Weather; Meteorology

A problem-solving system using a rule-based architecture consisting of a knowledge base of rules and general facts, a working memory of facts concerning the current case, and an inference engine for ...

principle of geometric association

Weather; Meteorology

A principle used in forecasting the thickness of a layer between two given constant-pressure surfaces; more commonly used prior to the advent of numerical forecasting techniques. In practical use of ...

roaring forties

Weather; Meteorology

A popular nautical term for the stormy ocean regions between 40° and 50° latitude. It nearly always refers to the Southern Hemisphere, where there is an almost completely uninterrupted belt of ocean ...