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leakage
Weather; Meteorology
The flow of fluid from a reservoir or water-bearing unit to an adjacent medium.
knowledge base
Weather; Meteorology
The facts, relationships, and procedures that constitute the knowledge about a given domain or task; the database of an expert (or knowledge based) system.
knowledge acquisition
Weather; Meteorology
The extraction and formulation of knowledge derived from extant sources, especially from experts. It includes the development of knowledge bases, often by interviewing and observing domain experts ...
Leeuwin Current
Weather; Meteorology
The eastern boundary current of the south Indian Ocean. It occupies the latitude band of the subtropical gyre but is not part of it; rather, it is found as a narrow and swift southward flowing ...
kinetic energy
Weather; Meteorology
The energy that a body possesses as a consequence of its motion, defined as one- half the product of its mass and the square of its speed, (1/2)mv2. The kinetic energy per unit volume of a fluid ...
Jevons effect
Weather; Meteorology
The effect of the presence of the rain gauge on the rainfall measurement. In 1861, W. S. Jevons pointed out that the rain gauge causes a disturbance in airflow past it, which carries past the gauge ...
