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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 tropical or subtropical region of grassland and other drought- resistant (xerophilous) vegetation. This type of growth occurs in regions that have a long dry season (usually “winter-dry”) but a heavy rainy season, and continuously high temperatures.
Industry:Weather
A tropical or subtropical region of grassland and other drought- resistant (xerophilous) vegetation. This type of growth occurs in regions that have a long dry season (usually “winter-dry”) but a heavy rainy season, and continuously high temperatures.
Industry:Weather
Aio. ) A violent northeasterly fall wind on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua and Guatemala. It consists of the cold air mass of a norte that has overridden the mountains of Central America and, being a descending wind, brings fine clear weather. Papagayos are most frequent and strongest in January and February, often lasting three or four days. They weaken between 7 and 10 A. M. And freshen again, sometimes to gale force, in the evening and early night. Compare tehuantepecer.
Industry:Weather
Literally “black wind”; a strong, very turbulent, dry, northeast wind of bora type that blows down mountain ranges in southern Kurdistan in Iran. The reshabar is dry and hot in summer and cold in winter.
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Term formerly used synonymously with sediment discharge rating.
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The volume of water released from storage from a unit area of the aquifer per unit decline of the hydraulic head.
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The volume of water released from storage per unit volume of a saturated porous medium per unit decrease in the hydraulic head.
Industry:Weather
Literally “dry wind”; in Russia, a dry, hot, dusty wind in the southern steppes. It blows principally from the east and frequently brings a prolonged drought and crop damage.
Industry:Weather
A cold, night wind of the mountains following the course of the Drôme River in southern France.
Industry:Weather
