Meteorology

Meteorology

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

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Meteorology

An action to make something less severe. A mitigation plan for a source of pollutants is a plan to reduce the amount of pollutants emitted. A mitigation plan could be voluntary or in response to a ...

miscible displacement

Weather; Meteorology

In a porous medium, the advance of one fluid into the pore space occupied by another fluid when the two fluids fully dissolve into each other. Compare immiscible displacement.

misocyclone

Weather; Meteorology

A horizontal vortex with a width of between 40 m and 4 km. It is often used to refer to 1) a vortex within a convective storm with a horizontal scale of less than 4 km, and 2) a near-surface vortex ...

misoscale

Weather; Meteorology

On a scale of 40 m to 4 km.

mirror nephoscope

Weather; Meteorology

A nephoscope in which the motion of the cloud is observed by its reflection in a mirror. A representative instrument consists of a black mirror disk, engraved with special concentric circles ...

mist

Weather; Meteorology

1. A suspension in the air consisting of an aggregate of microscopic water droplets or wet hygroscopic particles (of diameter not less than 0. 5 mm or 0. 02 in. ), reducing the visibility at the ...

mirage

Weather; Meteorology

An image formed when the atmosphere behaves as a lens. Mirages have a very small angular extent compared with that of the sky: They are normally seen near the horizon and involve image displacements ...