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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 universally used term for the immediate transmission of observed data.
Industry:Weather
A unit of water measure equal to 1 cubic foot per second, or about 449 gallons per minute. It is the unit of stream discharge commonly used in the United States.
Industry:Weather
A unit of luminance (or brightness) equal to one international candle per cm<sup>2</sup>.
Industry:Weather
A typhoon with maximum sustained 1-min mean surface winds of 67 m s<sup>−1</sup>(130 knots) or greater.
Industry:Weather
A unit of angular measure; one radian is that angle with an intercepted arc on a circle equal in length to the radius of the circle. Thus, π radians equals 180°. See'' also'' degree.
Industry:Weather
A type of snow crust, formed when loose firn is recemented by a decrease in temperature. It is most common in late winter and spring.
Industry:Weather
A type of snow crust formed by refreezing after surface snow crystals have been melted by the sun. This type of crust is composed of individual ice particles such as firn, but the sun's action may also produce a film crust.
Industry:Weather
A type of snow crust formed by refreezing after surface snow crystals have been melted and wetted by liquid precipitation. This type of crust is composed of individual ice particles such as firn. Rain may also help to form film crust or ice crust.
Industry:Weather
A type of pumping test in which, after the pumping stops, the rise of the water table or piezometric level in the pumped well, or in surrounding observation wells, is measured at predetermined time intervals.
Industry:Weather
A type of radio transmitter system having wide-angle coverage. It may emit signals continuously or, like the transponder, may respond to a received signal before operating.
Industry:Weather
