Meteorology

Meteorology

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Kaléma

Weather; Meteorology

A very heavy surf breaking on the Guinea coast of Africa during the winter.

An antenna consisting of a conducting coil of any convenient cross section, generally circular, that emits and receives radio energy. The principal lobe of the radiation pattern is wide and is in the ...

Landing forecast

Weather; Meteorology

Aerodrome forecast indicating the weather at a specific aerodrome, intended to meet the requirements of local users and aircraft within one hour's flying time of the aerodrome.

Level of no motion

Weather; Meteorology

An ocean surface at a depth where the current speed is assumed to be zero. The determination of currents through the dynamic method gives only relative speeds, therefore an ocean surface at depth has ...

Lambrecht's polymeter

Weather; Meteorology

An obsolete device that combines a mercury barometer and a hair hygrometer in a manner such that the dewpoint temperature is derived.

Kriging

Weather; Meteorology

An interpolation procedure used to estimate a variable at unsampled locations using weighted sums of the variable at neighbouring sample points. The procedure is designed to minimise the variance of ...

Line vortex

Weather; Meteorology

An idealized, mathematical vortex consisting of the limit of the contraction of a vortex tube to a curve in space. The flow surrounding the curve is assumed irrotational.