- 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 elevation at which a water-level gauge zero is set relative to a general datum.
Industry:Weather
The distance between adjacent points on a grid. In cases where all variables are not described at all grid points, the grid length is generally considered to be the distance between a grid point and its nearest neighbor at which the same variables are located. See staggered grid.
Industry:Weather
The distribution of ions and currents in the atmosphere and at the surface of the earth that occurs during fair weather or in areas where there is no thunderstorm activity. This distribution sets up a downward-directed electric field referred to as a fair-weather field.
Industry:Weather
The descent to the ground of dust and other debris raised to great heights in the atmosphere by a violent explosion, especially applied to radioactive fallout from an atomic or thermonuclear explosion.
Industry:Weather
The covering of a land area by glacier ice. This term was coined by G. Taylor in the Antarctic and introduced by Wright and Priestly (1922) to distinguish the act of glacial inundation from its geologic consequences (glaciation). It is growing in use in Great Britain but still is considered unnecessary by some American geologists, who use “glacier covering. ”
Industry:Weather
The degree of mixing of particle size classes in a sediment. Well-graded sediments are those with a more or less uniform distribution of sizes; poorly graded implies uniformity in size or lack of a continuous distribution.
Industry:Weather
The dense, rich, forest growth that is found at high or medium-high altitudes on tropical mountains. This occurs when the tropical rainforest penetrates altitudes of cloud formation; the climate found there is excessively moist and not too cold to prevent plant growth.
Industry:Weather
The coordinated global system of methods, techniques, and facilities for making observations on a world-wide scale within the framework of the World Weather Watch.
Industry:Weather
The contiguous ice sheet covering most of the Greenland subcontinent. Strictly speaking, it does not also refer to the adjacent small ice caps and glaciers that are physically separated from the main ice mass.
Industry:Weather
