- 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, ...
In the International System of Units, the fundamental unit of length; equal to 100 cm, 3. 2808399 ft, or 39. 370079 in.
Industry:Weather
A simple remapping scheme for polar-orbiting satellites designed to remove some of the distortion caused by the increasing sensor field of view towards the extreme limits of a scan swath. In modern processing systems it is more common to just remap the digital imagery to an extreme map projection.
Industry:Weather
The determination of hydraulic conductivity in the vicinity of a well by rapidly displacing the water in the well and calculating the amount of time necessary for the well water to return to its previous level.
Industry:Weather
The distortion or lack of resolution in measuring the distance to a target by radar, lidar, or sodar caused by the finite duration of the transmitted pulse. A point target returns an echo that is spread over a range of approximately half the pulse length. See radar resolution.
Industry:Weather
The discharge expected to result from the most severe combination of meteorological and hydrological conditions that are reasonably characteristic of the geographic region involved.
Industry:Weather
