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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 course, route, or track over the earth along which the angle between the course and true north is everywhere the same. The rhumb-line course is longer than a great-circle course, and its main justification lies in the simplification of navigation problems. See grid navigation.
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A constant of proportionality relating the rate of a chemical reaction to the concentrations of the chemical species involved in the reaction. For a second-order reaction, A + B → products, the units of the rate coefficient are (concentration)<sup>−1</sup>(time)<sup>−1</sup>.
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A constant of proportionality that relates the radiant emittance of a blackbody to the fourth power of the body's absolute temperature. Its value is 5. 670 x 10<sup>−8</sup> W m<sup>−2</sup> K<sup>−4</sup>.
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A continental air mass that develops over or near the polar region.
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A controllable artificial environment used for the study of plants under well-defined conditions.
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A communication between two and only two locations. A normal phone call is an example of a point-to-point communication (excluding conference calls).
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A complex ice crystal with dendritic arms that extend in many directions (spatially) from a central nucleus, probably a frozen droplet that originally froze as a polycrystal. Its form is roughly spherical. See dendritic crystal.
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A computer program that automatically detects the presence of desired features or signatures in radar data.
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A conceptual process in which the entropy of the universe (system plus surroundings) is constant. No real process is reversible.
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A conceptual term related to the ability of flowing water, as a stream, to transport sediment. Literally, the carrying capacity of a stream is the amount of sediment it can transport under the given flow conditions. This is generally a descriptive term not used for quantitative statements of rates and amounts of sediment discharge, and its use is generally discouraged.
Industry:Weather
