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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 long strip of ice floes, parallel to but separated from the edge of the main ice pack.
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A logical process of drawing conclusions from a collection of data and relationships between data and potential conclusions. Examples are chain rule, modus ponens, modus tollens, and resolution.
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A line of equal or constant specific volume. It is equivalent to an isopycnic line.
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A local strong wind that blows through the Dzungarian Gate (in western China), a gap in the mountain ridge separating the depression of Lakes Balkash and Ala Kul from that of Lake Ebi Nor. The wind resembles the foehn and brings a sudden rise of temperature, in winter from about −26° to about −1°C.
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A line of equal or constant temperature. A distinction is made, infrequently, between a line representing equal temperature in space, choroisotherm, and one representing constant temperature in time, chronoisotherm. See thermoisopleth.
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A line or surface showing the depths in oceans or lakes at which points have the same temperature. Isobathytherms are usually drawn to show cross sections of the water mass.
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A line on a map along which an equal percentage of the total annual precipitation falls in a given season or month; literally means “equal parts. ”
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A line of equal or constant pressure; an isopleth of pressure. In meteorology, it most often refers to a line drawn through all points of equal atmospheric pressure along a given reference surface, such as a constant-height surface (notably mean sea level on surface charts), an isentropic surface, the vertical plane of a synoptic cross section, etc. The pattern of isobars has always been a main feature of surface-chart analysis. Isobars are usually drawn at intervals of one millibar or more, depending on the scale needed to identify or illustrate a specific meteorological pattern.
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