- 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 area in the coastal zone with breaking waves; also the collective term for breakers.
Industry:Weather
The apparatus or equipment used to take samples of the mixture of fluid and sediment.
Industry:Weather
The analysis of synoptic charts, or the body of techniques so employed.
Industry:Weather
The analysis of data using photogrammetric procedures and techniques.
Industry:Weather
The analysis (or reconstruction) of the weather pattern from more or less continuous meteorological observations made at a single geographic location; or the body of techniques employed in such an analysis. The extension of these techniques to produce a weather forecast is known as single-station forecasting.
Industry:Weather
The amount of water that drains from the snowpack as a result of precipitation and/or snowmelt.
Industry:Weather
The amount of water in an unsaturated soil, expressed as a volume of water per unit volume of porous media, or as a mass of water per unit oven-dry mass of soil.
Industry:Weather
The amount of precipitation of any type (including the liquid equivalent of frozen hydrometeors); usually taken as that amount measured by means of a rain gauge (thus a small, varying amount of direct condensation is included). A more accurate term would be precipitation or precipitation amount. However, the broad use of “rainfall” is firmly established in meteorology, especially in hydrologic and climatological literature. Its best utilization would confine it to liquid precipitation, and so would provide a distinction between precipitation immediately accessible to soil and streams and that delayed in storage as snow or ice on the earth's surface.
Industry:Weather
The amount of ice in a snow sample expressed as a percent of the weight of the sample.
Industry:Weather
The altitude that corresponds to a given value of atmospheric pressure according to the ICAO standard atmosphere. It is the indicated altitude of a pressure altimeter at an altimeter setting of 29. 92 in. Of mercury (1013. 2 hPa); therefore, it is the indicated altitude above the 1013. 2-hPa constant- pressure surface.
Industry:Weather
