- Industry: Weather
- Number of terms: 60695
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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, ...
Same as Stüve diagram, but often used synonymously with thermodynamic diagram.
Industry:Weather
Water retained by soil constituents as a result of the molecular attraction between the water and the soil.
Industry:Weather
An instrument designed to determine rainfall over lakes and oceans. A hydrophone is used to sense the sound signatures for each drop size as rain strikes a water surface. Since each sound signature is unique, it is possible to invert the underwater sound field to estimate the drop-size distribution within the rain. Selected moments of the drop-size distribution yield rainfall rate, rainfall accumulation, and other rainfall properties.
Industry:Weather
A type of hygrometer that measures the water vapor content of the atmosphere by means of the absorption of vapor by a hygroscopic chemical. The amount of vapor absorbed may be determined in an absolute manner by weighing the hygroscopic material (see gravimetric hygrometry), or in a nonabsolute manner by measuring a physical property of the substance that varies with the amount of water vapor absorbed. The humidity strip, the carbon-film hygrometer element, and the thin-film capacitor are examples of the latter.
Industry:Weather
