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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, ...
1. Sometimes used for an inviscid, incompressible, homogeneous fluid. 2. Same as inviscid fluid. 3. See ideal gas.
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1. Snow or ice on the ground that has been reduced to a soft watery mixture by rain, warm temperature, and/or chemical treatment. 2. Same as sludge.
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1. Segmentation of a remote sensing window channel into smaller increments of wavelength. 2. A technique used to calculate land and sea surface temperatures, where corrections are made for the atmospheric modification of upwelling radiation from the surface.
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1. See storm surge. 2. See surge current. 3. See surge line. 4. In hydrology, a sudden change in discharge resulting from the opening or closing of a gate that controls the flow in a channel, or by the sudden introduction of additional water into the channel. 5. The fore and aft movement of the center of gravity of a ship. See heave, sway, ship motion. 6. Water transported up a beach by breaking waves.
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1. See ridge. 2. A ridge of ice, up to 35 m (100 ft) high and sometimes several kilometers long, in pressure ice.
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1. See ice pellets. 2. In British terminology, and colloquially in some parts of the United States, precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
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1. Same as storm surge. 2. The height of a storm surge (or hurricane wave) above the astronomically predicted level of the sea.
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1. Same as singular point. 2. A characteristic meteorological condition that tends to occur on or near a specific date more frequently than chance would indicate. See January thaw.
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1. Same as scattering; or, sometimes used in referring to the scattered radiation. 2. The relative dispersion of points on a graph, especially with respect to a mean value, or any curve used to represent the points. See scatter diagram, spread.
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1. Same as rain washout. 2. A process in a dissipating cumulonimbus that results in all the large hydrometeors falling out as precipitation, leaving a nonprecipitating cloud composed of small ice crystals.
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