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A database of terms pertaining to the scientific study of the atmosphere.
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night wind
Weather; Meteorology
Dry squalls that occur at night in southwest Africa and the Congo. It is likely that this term is loosely applied to other diurnal local winds such as mountain wind, land breeze, midnight wind, etc.
neutral wave
Weather; Meteorology
In hydrodynamic instability theory, a wave solution the amplitude of which does not change with time; it neither grows nor decays. In contrast, the amplitude of a growing mode (or wave) increases ...
newton
Weather; Meteorology
A unit of force that, when applied to a body of mass one kilogram, gives it an acceleration of one meter per second squared (1 N = 1 kg m s −2 ).
new snow
Weather; Meteorology
1. Recently fallen snow in which the original form of the snow crystals is recognizable. 2. The amount of snow fallen within the previous 24 hours.
nevada
Weather; Meteorology
A cold wind descending from a mountain glacier (glacier wind) or snowfield, for example, in the higher valleys of Ecuador.
neutrosphere
Weather; Meteorology
The atmospheric shell from the earth's surface upward in which the atmospheric constituents are for the most part not ionized, that is, electrically neutral. The region of transition between the ...
neutron-scattering method
Weather; Meteorology
Technique used for the indirect measurement of soil moisture content based on the thermalization (slowing) and scattering of emitted neutron radiation upon encountering hydrogen atoms, which occurs ...