Meteorology

Meteorology

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

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mode water

Weather; Meteorology

A term for water of exceptionally uniform properties over an extensive depth range, caused in most instances by convection. Mode waters represent regions of water mass formation; they are not ...

mobile weather station

Weather; Meteorology

A vehicle used to provide meteorological observations at a place where no fixed station exists, or to study the mesoscale processes or the microclimate of a region.

mobile source

Weather; Meteorology

A category of pollution sources that release emissions as they travel, for example, automobiles, ships, etc. Compare stationary source.

mobile ship

Weather; Meteorology

A ship equipped to take upper-air soundings.

A system of units consisting of meters, kilograms, and seconds. This natural, easily understood system is used around the world in commerce and by the public, but is not yet used extensively in the ...

moat

Weather; Meteorology

A ring of reduced precipitation and radar reflectivity just outside the eyewall of a tropical cyclone or between inner and outer concentric eyewalls. In many tropical cyclones, this is a distinct ...

mixing line

Weather; Meteorology

A method of thermodynamic analysis where the conserved variables for two different states of air (i.e., air parcels) are plotted on a thermodynamic diagram, and the ending state of a mixture of the ...