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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, ...
For meteorological consideration, the layer of essentially saturated soil above the plane of free water (water table).
Industry:Weather
For a given cloud or cloud layer, the highest level in the atmosphere at which the air contains a perceptible quantity of cloud particles.
Industry:Weather
For a given cloud or cloud layer, the lowest level in the atmosphere at which the air contains a perceptible quantity of cloud particles. See cloud height, ceiling.
Industry:Weather
Fluid flow at very small values of the Reynolds number, that is, in general, a very viscous flow.
Industry:Weather
Fluid motion in the same sense as that of the earth, that is, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, undefined at the equator.
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Floating pack ice in which the ice concentration is between 7/10 and 8/10, composed of floes mostly in contact.
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Flat pieces of sea ice larger than brash. Cake ice is often tightly packed, giving it a mosaic appearance, but its surface is generally smooth in contrast to rough, hummocked pressure ice.
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Episodes of convective precipitation falling in an area no more than about 10 km wide and for a time period of less than about one-half hour.
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