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The American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, AMS has a membership of more than 14,000 professionals, ...
The ratio of the fractional rise in atmospheric CO2 content to the fractional rise in total CO2 of a water sample at equilibrium with the atmosphere.
Industry:Weather
The ratio of the fractional rise in atmospheric CO2 content to the fractional rise in total CO2 of a water sample at equilibrium with the atmosphere.
Industry:Weather
In China and Japan, a “mist” that occurs in spring and fall, when loose earth is churned up by the wind so that clouds of dust rise to great heights, afterward collecting moisture and falling as colored mist that produces a thick coating of very fine yellow dust.
Industry:Weather
In China and Japan, a “mist” that occurs in spring and fall, when loose earth is churned up by the wind so that clouds of dust rise to great heights, afterward collecting moisture and falling as colored mist that produces a thick coating of very fine yellow dust.
Industry:Weather
A cloud plume often observed to extend downwind from isolated, sharp, often pyramid-shaped mountain peaks, even on otherwise cloud-free days. The Matterhorn and Mount Everest are two notable peaks where banner clouds have been frequently observed. The physics of the formation of such clouds is not completely understood. The aerodynamics of the flow around the peak produces flow separation and dynamically induced pressure reductions to the lee of the mountain peaks. The magnitude of the leeside pressure deficits increases with height to a maximum near the top of the peak, producing an upslope pressure gradient and upslope flow along the lee slope of the mountain. When the air near the base of the mountain is sufficiently moist, it ascends in the upslope flow, condenses, and forms a triangular- shaped cloud, the banner cloud, to the lee of the peak. Because of its unusual shape and location, this cloud strongly resembles snow blowing off the peak (snow banner), and it is often difficult to tell the difference.
Industry:Weather
The rapid and chaotic motion of particles suspended in a fluid at rest as a consequence of fluctuations in the rate at which fluid molecules collide with the particles. On average, the particles experience zero net force, but deviations from this average give rise to Brownian motion, so named because it reputedly was observed first in pollen grains by the botanist Robert Brown. Whether Brown actually observed what we now call Brownian motion has been questioned on the grounds that his grains were so large that their fluctuating motion would have been imperceptible. But even if Brownian motion can ever be shown not to have been observed by Brown, his name is likely to be forever attached to this motion, especially since mathematicians have generalized this term to a broad class of stochastic processes. Brownian motion is more than just a scientific curiosity, having played a key role in establishing the reality of molecules and in presenting a convincing argument for the kinetic theory of gases.
Industry:Weather
A cloud plume often observed to extend downwind from isolated, sharp, often pyramid-shaped mountain peaks, even on otherwise cloud-free days. The Matterhorn and Mount Everest are two notable peaks where banner clouds have been frequently observed. The physics of the formation of such clouds is not completely understood. The aerodynamics of the flow around the peak produces flow separation and dynamically induced pressure reductions to the lee of the mountain peaks. The magnitude of the leeside pressure deficits increases with height to a maximum near the top of the peak, producing an upslope pressure gradient and upslope flow along the lee slope of the mountain. When the air near the base of the mountain is sufficiently moist, it ascends in the upslope flow, condenses, and forms a triangular- shaped cloud, the banner cloud, to the lee of the peak. Because of its unusual shape and location, this cloud strongly resembles snow blowing off the peak (snow banner), and it is often difficult to tell the difference.
Industry:Weather
A particular aspect of a normal lightning flash occasionally seen when the observer happens to view end-on a number of segments of the irregular channel (zigzag lightning) and hence receives an impression of higher luminosity at a series of locations along the channel.
Industry:Weather
