Meteorology

Meteorology

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line of apsides

Weather; Meteorology

In astronomy, the line joining the points where the distance of an orbiting body is greatest and where it is least from the attractive body. The line extends infinitely in both directions.

kernel ice

Weather; Meteorology

In aircraft icing, an extreme form of rime ice, that is, very irregular, opaque, and of low density. Kernel ice forms at temperatures of −15°C and lower.

In an antenna pattern, a region of local maximum in the emitted intensity. The strongest lobe is in the pointing direction of a directional antenna and is called the main lobe. The configuration of ...

lightning stroke

Weather; Meteorology

In a cloud-to-ground discharge, a leader plus its subsequent return stroke. In a typical case, a cloud-to-ground discharge is made up of three or four successive lightning strokes, most following the ...