Meteorology

Meteorology

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noise level

Weather; Meteorology

Roughly, the amount of noise power in a signal. The noise level is a limit where simple power measurements start to have trouble measuring the signal.

new snow

Weather; Meteorology

1. Recently fallen snow in which the original form of the snow crystals is recognizable. 2. The amount of snow fallen within the previous 24 hours.

Meteosat

Weather; Meteorology

A series of European geostationary satellites, initiated with the launch of Meteosat-1 in November 1977. Meteosat-1 was the first geostationary satellite to provide 6. 7-μm water vapor imagery. ...

cloudy

Weather; Meteorology

1. The character of the sunrise or sunset when the disk of the sun is hidden at these times by clouds or an obscuring phenomenon. Compare clear. 2. In popular usage, the state of the weather when ...

1. A violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud. When ...