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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 stream channel experiencing significant morphologic changes, such as aggradation or degradation.
Industry:Weather
A stormy southwest wind on the southern Mediterranean coast of Spain and in the Strait of Gibraltar. It occurs with a low advancing from the west in late autumn, winter, or early spring, and is often accompanied by thunderstorms and violent squalls.
Industry:Weather
A storage-type, electronically scanned photoconductive television camera tube that often has a response to radiation beyond the limits of the visible region; particularly used in early space applications, since no film was required.
Industry:Weather
A stepped leader with the upper portion of the channel characterized by longer and brighter steps than those found in the lower portion of the channel. Many researchers report that a preliminary breakdown precedes the stepped leader in electric field records. The beta leader may be this preliminary stepped leader. Compare type-α leader.
Industry:Weather
A stone with its form modified by the sand-blasting effect of wind-carried sediments. Ventifacts are common in periglacial zones as well in deserts. See dreikanter.
Industry:Weather
A stepped leader that exhibits very little branching and with individual steps that are short and so weakly luminous as to be difficult to discern on high-speed streak photographs. Compare type-β leader.
Industry:Weather
A stable benchmark near a gauge to which tide gauge datum is referred. It is connected to local auxiliary benchmarks to check local stability and to guard against accidental damage. The tide gauge datum is a horizontal plane defined at a fixed arbitrary level below a tide gauge benchmark.
Industry:Weather
