Meteorology

Meteorology

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Leader streamer

Weather; Meteorology

The electric discharge that initiates each return stroke in a cloud- to-ground lightning discharge. It is a channel of high ionisation that propagates through the air by virtue of the electric ...

Leader

Weather; Meteorology

The electric discharge that initiates each return stroke in a cloud- to-ground lightning discharge. It is a channel of high ionisation that propagates through the air by virtue of the electric ...

An instrument combining a pulsed laser transmitter and optical receiver (usually a telescope) with an electronic signal processing unit used for the detection and ranging of various distant targets ...

Laveche

Weather; Meteorology

A name for the sirocco in Spain. It is a hot, sand- and dust-laden wind from between southeast and southwest that blows in front of a depression on the southeast coast of Spain but extends only a few ...

Leveche

Weather; Meteorology

Kaus

Weather; Meteorology

A moderate to gale-force southeasterly wind in the Persian Gulf; it is accompanied by gloomy weather, rain, and squalls. The kaus is most frequent between December and April. It is associated with ...

Jump

Weather; Meteorology

1. A discontinuity in a function or a derivative of a function such that it assumes different values at a point when the point is approached from different directions. 2. See pressure jump.