Meteorology

Meteorology

A database of terms pertaining to the scientific study of the atmosphere.

Contributors in Meteorology

Meteorology

A variety of cloud (sheet, layer, or patch), the greater part of which is sufficiently dense to obscure the sun (betweeen 10 and 20 optical depths). This variety is found in the genera altocumulus, ...

Onshore wind

Weather; Meteorology

A wind blowing from water onto land; the wind may be a result of heating differences between land and water or related to synoptic weather patterns.

One-way entrainment process

Weather; Meteorology

At the interface between a turbulent boundary layer and a laminar boundary layer, laminar air is incorporated into the turbulent layer, but none of the turbulent air is incorporated into the laminar ...

One-dimensional model

Weather; Meteorology

A mathematical model that simulates variations in chemical composition along one spatial coordinate, usually altitude, as a function of time. One-dimensional models are usually used to examine the ...

On and off instruments

Weather; Meteorology

A description used by aircraft crews for flight conditions wherein the encountered flight weather alternately allows visual flight and requires instrument flight.

Linearized differential equation

Weather; Meteorology

A differential equation that has been derived from an original nonlinear equation by the treatment of each dependent variable as consisting of the sum of an undisturbed or steady component and a ...

Jury problem

Weather; Meteorology

A differential equation solved numerically by a method of successive approximations that fits the solution to given boundary conditions. Elliptic equations, such as the Poisson equation, lead to jury ...