- Industry: Weather
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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 time of greatest ice volume and/or position of greatest areal extent of any glacierization.
Industry:Weather
The titratable acidity in the aqueous phase of a soil. It may be expressed in milliequivalents per unit mass of soil or in other suitable units.
Industry:Weather
The top of a fog layer that is confined by a low-level temperature inversion in such a way as to give the appearance of the horizon when viewed from above against the sky. The true horizon is usually obscured by the fog in such instances. Compare dust horizon, haze horizon, smoke horizon.
Industry:Weather
Solar radiation, direct and diffuse, received from a solid angle of 2π steradians on a horizontal surface.
Industry:Weather
The tidal current associated with the increase in the height of a tide; the opposite of ebb current. See flood current.
Industry:Weather
The temperature registered by a thermometer with its bulb at the level of the tops of the grass blades in short turf.
Industry:Weather
The tendency of two nearby tropical cyclones to rotate cyclonically about each other as a result of their circulations' mutual advection. This occurs with some frequency in the northwestern Pacific basin, where it presents a significant forecast challenge, but happens more rarely in other ocean basins. See binary cyclones.
Industry:Weather
The third-order division of geologic time, delimited by partial withdrawal of the sea from land masses and by gentle crustal disturbances in localized areas. Two or more epochs are required to make up a geologic period, and, in turn, two or more periods are needed to constitute a geologic era.
Industry:Weather
The substitution of the frequency distributions of rainfall depths for the frequency distribution of flood flows. This implicitly assumes that critical storms are large enough to overwhelm variations in soil moisture, rainfall timing, rainfall intensity variations, and other parameters.
Industry:Weather
The surface representing the rise in water table or potentiometric surface caused by the injection of water.
Industry:Weather
