Meteorology

Meteorology

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Normal stresses

Weather; Meteorology

The components of the stress tensor that are normal to the faces of the fluid element.

Nonwetting liquid

Weather; Meteorology

The fluid in a pair of immiscible fluids that has a contact angle with the solid surface greater than 90°. It is the fluid with the lower affinity for the solid surface.

Nonsupercell tornado

Weather; Meteorology

A tornado that occurs with a parent cloud in its growth stage and with its vorticity originating in the boundary layer. The parent cloud does not contain a preexisting midlevel mesocyclone. ...

Nonrecording rain gauge

Weather; Meteorology

Any member of the class of rain gauges in which rain amount as a function of time is not automatically recorded. See eight-inch rain gauge.

Nonlocal static stability

Weather; Meteorology

A term emphasising that the whole vertical profile of virtual potential temperature θ ''v'' , not just the the local vertical gradient ∂θ ''v'' /∂''z'', must be used when determining whether flow ...

Karajol

Weather; Meteorology

On the Bulgarian coast, a west wind that usually follows rain and persists for one to three days.

A strong southwest wind on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden, especially at Berbera, Somaliland, during the southwest monsoon. It sets in at about 10 local time and continues until about noon ...