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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 surface of discontinuity of velocity in a fluid, which may be regarded as formed by vortex filaments oriented normal to the shear vector across the surface. Such a velocity distribution exhibits Helmholtz instability.
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A surface current flowing northward along the central axis of the Yellow Sea. The current is very shallow but strong, with speeds of 0. 2 m s<sup>−1</sup>. It is effectively an offshoot from the Kuroshio sandwiched between southward flowing coastal currents on the Chinese and Korean side. Advection of the warm Kuroshio water increases the temperature of the central Yellow Sea several degrees over the temperatures of the coastal regions.
Industry:Weather
A superposition of waves propagating in the same direction and with almost equal phase speeds.
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A sudden squall in tropical or subtropical waters; it is so called because the usual squall cloud is absent, thus, the only warning of its approach is the whiteness of a line of broken water or whitecaps. This may represent the outflow of a convective system that has recently dissipated.
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A subjective or instrumental evaluation of the vertical distance into a surface- based obscuration that an observer is able to see. The height ascribed to vertical visibility is always a ceiling height.
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A strong, gusty, east-northeast wind, occurring in the vicinity of Juneau, Alaska, between October and March. It sometimes attains hurricane force at the mouth of the Taku River, after which it is named. See Stikine wind.
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A strong, dry, hazy, east or southeast wind during the east monsoon in the Spermunde Archipelago. See tongara, broeboe.
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A strong, cold, dry, west wind of eastern Asia, especially northern China, that sweeps across the plains in winter carrying a fine yellow dust from the deserts. The deposition of this dust over thousands of years has formed the loess deposits of China.
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