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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 boundary formed by the horizontal spreading of thunderstorm-cooled air. Outflow boundaries may intersect with each other or with other features (fronts, low-level jets) and act to focus new convection. Outflow boundaries may be short-lived, or last for longer than a day. See gust front.
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Very generally, the atmosphere at a great distance from the earth's surface; possibly best used as an approximate synonym for exosphere.
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For flow over a hill, the top layer in the boundary layer that accelerates relative to its upstream value due to the Bernoulli effect.
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The outermost region of a tropical cyclone, encompassing all of the region affected by the storm outside its eyewall.
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A warm southerly wind on the Bulgarian coast; it is considered a precursor of bad weather. See austru; compare lodos.
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When a plane wave is incident on a uniaxial medium (an anisotropic medium with two equivalent orthogonal directions), two transmitted waves result: the ordinary ray (or wave), the phase velocity of which does not depend on its direction, and the extraordinary ray (or wave), the phase velocity of which depends on the angle it makes with the optic axis (the unique direction along which waves propagate as if the medium were optically isotropic).
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The process by which a solvent is allowed to diffuse through a semipermeable membrane from a solution of higher concentration to one of lower concentration.
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The general term for an electrical device that generates alternating currents or voltages. The oscillator is classified according to the frequency of the generated signal.
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