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lane
Weather; Meteorology
A narrow, not necessarily navigable, crack in pack ice that may widen into a lead.
liberator
Weather; Meteorology
A name sometimes given the west wind through the Straits of Gibraltar.
george's index
Weather; Meteorology
A stability index that is a measure of thunderstorm potential based on temperature lapse rate, moisture content of the lower troposphere, and the vertical extent of the moist layer. The K index is ...
K index
Weather; Meteorology
A stability index that is a measure of thunderstorm potential based on temperature lapse rate, moisture content of the lower troposphere, and the vertical extent of the moist layer. The K index is ...
equilibrium level
Weather; Meteorology
The level at which an air parcel, rising or descending adiabatically, attains the same density as its environment.
level of neutral buoyancy
Weather; Meteorology
The level at which an air parcel, rising or descending adiabatically, attains the same density as its environment.
compressional wave
Weather; Meteorology
An irrotational plane wave A parallel to the propagation direction in the sense that if A = A0exp(ik • x − iωt), where k is the wave vector, then k × A = 0. An example is an acoustic wave in ...
