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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, ...
That type of gaseous electrical discharge in which the charge transfer occurs transiently along a relatively constricted path of high ion density, resulting in high luminosity. It is of short duration and to be contrasted with the nonluminous point discharge, the corona discharge, and the continuous arc discharge. The exact meaning to be attached to the term “spark discharge” varies somewhat in the literature. It is frequently applied to just the transient phase of the establishment of any arc discharge. A lightning discharge can be considered a large- scale spark discharge.
Industry:Weather
The agitation of water caused by the interaction of water currents or by a rapid current setting in over an irregular bottom; for example, a tide rip.
Industry:Weather
That part of orographic precipitation that is carried over the peaks by the wind so that it reaches the ground on the lee side of the barrier.
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That part of the electromagnetic spectrum occupied by the wavelengths of solar radiation. The shape is well represented by the continuum emission from a blackbody with temperature near 5700 K superimposed with Fraunhofer absorption lines.
Industry:Weather
The actual climate of a place, as distinguished from a hypothetical climate, such as that simulated by a mathematical model.
Industry:Weather
The accumulation of water in depressions on the basin surface, ranging in size from lakes and swamps to cavities the size of soil grains, with no possibility for escape as runoff. Compare depression storage.
Industry:Weather
The accumulation of ice and water on exposed surfaces of aircraft when the craft is flown through wet snow and liquid drops at temperatures near 0°C. See aircraft icing.
Industry:Weather
The ability of an ice nucleating particle to act at a higher temperature or a lower supersaturation once it has activated an ice crystal that has subsequently evaporated, provided that critical conditions of temperature and undersaturation are not exceeded.
Industry:Weather
