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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, ...
A natural source of electromagnetic radiation in the radio frequency band. Lightning would be a common example.
Industry:Weather
A name generally applied to winds from an easterly direction (i.e., from the rising sun) in central and southern France. Local variants are soulédras, soulèdre. In the Morvan Mountains the soulaire blows from the south. Compare matinal, solano.
Industry:Weather
A narrow current in the surf zone flowing seaward from the shore. It usually appears as a visible band of agitated water and is the return movement of water piled up on the shore by incoming waves and winds.
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A more accurate alternative to quasigeostrophic theory that involves the geostrophic momentum approximation to the quasi-static primitive equations. In semigeostrophic theory the full effects of ageostrophic advection are included. Atmospheric structures such as fronts, small strong low pressure cells, and broad weak high pressure cells are more accurately represented in semigeostrophic theory than in quasigeostrophic theory.
Industry:Weather
A more complicated form of the phase function that is needed to treat the scattering of polarized radiation.
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A mound or bank of snow deposited as sloping surfaces and peaks, often behind obstacles and irregularities, due to eddies in the wind field.
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A monsoon trough with a southwest–northeast orientation (which is the reverse of the normal northwest–southeast orientation of the trough axis). This type of monsoon trough often penetrates into subtropical areas (normally the province of easterly flow).
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