Meteorology

Meteorology

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jet stream cirrus

Weather; Meteorology

Cirrus specifically associated with vertical motion with respect to the jet stream, which gives a visual indication of the existence and direction of the jet stream across the sky.

Loschmidt's number

Weather; Meteorology

Avogadro's number per unit liter, that is, 2. 687 x 1022 per liter.

Any part of the earth's seasonal or perennial ice cover that has formed over land as the result, principally, of the freezing of precipitation; opposed to sea ice formed by the freezing of seawater. ...

latent instability

Weather; Meteorology

Atmospheric conditions above the level of free convection when the lapse rate is steeper than moist adiabatic; has been used more as a quantitative measure than a qualitative condition. It is ...