- 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, ...
A synoptic pattern, approximating to a sine curve, that is formed by alternate troughs and ridges of about equal amplitude.
Industry:Weather
A synoptic code for communicating marine weather observations. It is a modification of the international synoptic code. Abbreviated forms of the ship synoptic code are 1) abbreviated ship code, 2) short ship code, and 3) lightship code.
Industry:Weather
A synoptic chart showing areas covered by snow and showing contour lines of snow depth.
Industry:Weather
A surface synoptic station on land, other than a principal land station.
Industry:Weather
A surface of constant pressure, defined by international agreement, used for representing and analyzing conditions of the atmosphere.
Industry:Weather
A sunshine recorder of the type in which the timescale is supplied by the motion of the sun. The instrument, which is pointed at the celestial pole, consists of a hemispherical mirror mounted externally on the optical axis of a camera. The lens of the camera forms an image of the sun that is reflected by the hemispherical mirror so that as the sun moves across the sky, the image traces an arc of a circle on the photographic paper.
Industry:Weather
A summer thunderstorm in the mountains and deserts of southern California and Baja California, Mexico.
Industry:Weather
A sudden rise in pressure due to a mesoscale high pressure area, often formed by the outflow of a thunderstorm; typically associated with a prefrontal squall line. The decrease in pressure after the passage of the mesoscale high is known as a wake depression or wake low.
Industry:Weather
A substantial rise in stream or river discharge caused by snowmelt runoff.
Industry:Weather
