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Meteorology

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compound distribution

Weather; Meteorology

A frequency distribution that is composed of a mixture of several unlike populations of data or populations with different parameters.

Models of the upper ocean (usually one-dimensional) that take advantage of the concept of a mixed layer by assuming 1) the mean temperature, salinity, and horizontal velocity are quasi-uniform within ...

mixed layer

Weather; Meteorology

1. (Abbreviated ML; sometimes called convective mixed layer, convective boundary layer, or mixing layer in air-pollution meteorology. ) A type of atmospheric boundary layer characterized by vigorous ...

mills infection period

Weather; Meteorology

Environmental conditions favorable to promoting development of a vector (spores in the air or soil and insect populations) or disease.

mixed cloud

Weather; Meteorology

A cloud containing both water drops (supercooled at temperatures below 0°C) and ice crystals, hence a cloud with a composition between that of a water cloud and that of an ice- crystal cloud. A mixed ...

mixed distribution

Weather; Meteorology

A frequency distribution that is composed of a mixture of several unlike populations of data or populations with different parameters.

mistral

Weather; Meteorology

A north wind that blows down the Rhone valley south of Valence, France, and into the Gulf of Lions. It is strong, squally, cold, and dry, the combined result of the basic circulation, a fall wind, ...