Meteorology

Meteorology

A database of terms pertaining to the scientific study of the atmosphere.

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Meteorology

Sometimes used for “small” jet stream. The term very likely originated to describe relatively small regions of maximum wind, especially those analyzed as jet streams because the maximum wind falls ...

lake-effect snowstorm

Weather; Meteorology

Snowstorm occurring near or downwind from the shore of a lake resulting from the warming (destabilization) and moistening of relatively cold air during passage over a warm body of water.

local free-convection similarity

Weather; Meteorology

Similar to mixed-layer similarity as a way to find empirically universal relationships between boundary layer variables, except using a general height z in place of the depth of the mixed layer zi ...

local similarity

Weather; Meteorology

Similar to local free-convection similarity, except designed for the statically stable boundary layer. Also known as z-less scaling, because the appropriate length scale does not depend on height z. ...

longwave

Weather; Meteorology

Shorthand for longwave radiation.

multivariate signal

Weather; Meteorology

A signal that consists of several distinguishable components. A multivariate signal may contain information that describes both the temporal and spatial variability of a single physical quantity.

multivariate objective analysis

Weather; Meteorology

An analysis procedure based on derivation of an analytic formula containing two or more variables to approximate values of a physical quantity at specified data points. The resulting formula serves ...