Meteorology

Meteorology

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Love wave

Weather; Meteorology

A type of seismic surface wave having a horizontal motion that is shear or transverse to the direction of propagation. Its velocity depends only on density and rigidity modulus, and not on bulk ...

k–ε closure

Weather; Meteorology

A type of one-and-a-half-order turbulence closure that retains forecast equations for mean (first-order statistics) variables such as potential temperature and wind components, and also retains ...

A type of evaporation gauge that consists of a tank or pan of soil placed in a field and manipulated so that the soil, water, thermal, and vegetative properties in the tank duplicate as closely as ...

Lambert conic projection

Weather; Meteorology

A type of conformal map in which features on a sphere are projected onto a cone. The cone can either be tangent to the sphere, for which contact is along one circle, or pass through the sphere, for ...

katathermometer

Weather; Meteorology

A type of cooling-power anemometer based upon the principle that the time constant of a thermometer is a function of its ventilation. The form developed in the early nineteenth century consisted of a ...

light frost

Weather; Meteorology

A thin and more or less patchy deposit of hoarfrost on surface objects and vegetation. This term is used, inappropriately, for a light freeze.

Langmuir layer

Weather; Meteorology

A trace organic impurity in water with a polar or similar chemical group that disperses the material as a surface near monomolecular layer and influences surface properties as water vapor deposition ...