Meteorology

Meteorology

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local forecast

Weather; Meteorology

Generally, any weather forecast of conditions over a relatively limited area, such as a city or airport.

katabatic front

Weather; Meteorology

Frontal surface above which air is descending.

Family of organic carbonyl compounds of general formula RC(O)R, where the R represents alkyl groups (not necessarily the same). Ketones are formed in the oxidation of most of the larger hydrocarbons. ...

Lagrangian equations of motion

Weather; Meteorology

Differential equations that determine the evolution of a general dynamical system. These are derived using the calculus of variations to minimize the Lagrangian functional equivalent to the time ...

large eddy simulation models

Weather; Meteorology

Computer codes that numerically integrate in three dimensions the time-dependent Navier–Stokes equations filtered over a grid volume much smaller than the size of the energy-containing eddies or ...

London (sulfurous) smog

Weather; Meteorology

Deadly mixture of smoke and fog peaking in the midtwentieth century in large cities. A smog episode in London in 1952 led to 4000 deaths. The sulfuric acid produced from the fossil fuel sources in ...

linear

Weather; Meteorology

Confined to first-degree algebraic terms in the relevant variables. For example, a + bx + cy is linear in x and y; a sin x + b cos y is linear in the coefficients a and b, but nonlinear in x and y.