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tropical climate
Weather; Meteorology
In general, a climatic zone with a climate typical of equatorial and tropical regions; that is, one with continually high temperatures and with considerable precipitation, at least during part of the ...
partly cloudy
Weather; Meteorology
1. In U. S. Climatological practice, the character of a day's weather when the average cloudiness, as determined from frequent observations, has been from 0. 4 to 0. 7 for the 24-hour period. Compare ...
Muskingum method
Weather; Meteorology
An approximate hydrological method of flood routing through a reach of river, based on the equation of continuity and a storage equation expressing the linear dependence of the water volume in the ...
momentum transfer
Weather; Meteorology
Transport of a property of air known as momentum, which is the product of mass and velocity of the air, from one location to another.
disturbed soil sample
Weather; Meteorology
A sample of soil that does not preserve the pore structure and bulk density of the parent material.
spectral function
Weather; Meteorology
The Fourier representation of a given function, that is, the Fourier transform if the given function is aperiodic, or the set of coefficients of the Fourier series if the given function is periodic. ...