Meteorology

Meteorology

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model calibration

Weather; Meteorology

Adjustment of the parameters of a mathematical or numerical model in order to optimize the agreement between observed data and the model's predictions.

For a numerical weather prediction model, statistical relations between model-forecast variables and observed weather variables, used for either correction of model-forecast variables or prediction ...

model

Weather; Meteorology

A tool for simulating or predicting the behavior of a dynamical system like the atmosphere. Models can be based on subjective heuristic methods, statistics (see statistical dynamical model, model ...

slab models

Weather; Meteorology

An approximation that treats the atmospheric boundary layer as though variables such as potential temperature, momentum, pollutants, and humidity were uniform with height. This type of model is ...

mode eddies

Weather; Meteorology

In oceanography, densely packed, irregularly oval- shaped high and low pressure centers roughly 400 km (240 miles) in diameter in which current intensities are typically tenfold greater than the ...

mock sun

Weather; Meteorology

A locally bright spot of light in the sky other than the sun itself. As such, it is usually applied to a parhelion, but has also been used for other spots such as paranthelia.

mode

Weather; Meteorology

One of several accepted measures of central tendency. It is the most probable value of a discrete variate, or the point of maximum probability density in the case of a continuous variate.