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The American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, AMS has a membership of more than 14,000 professionals, ...
The Cunnane plotting position for the rth ranked (from largest to smallest) datum from a sample of size n, is the quotient
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A vector operation upon a vector field that represents the rotation of the field, related by Stokes's theorem to the circulation of the field at each point.
The curl is invariant with respect to coordinate transformations and is usually written
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For an isolated, gaseous absorption band, the relation between integrated absorption by the gas and its amount.
That is, if
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That horizontal wind velocity for which the centripetal acceleration exactly balances the horizontal pressure force:
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The quantity ''D'' describing the altitude of a point on a constant-pressure surface by its departure from “standard” altitude:
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The relationship for movement of fluids through permeable or porous media, such as soil, which states that at low Reynolds numbers the flow velocity ''V'' is proportional to hydraulic gradient ''dh''/''dl'', where the constant of proportionality ''K'' is the hydraulic conductivity:
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The provision of weather forecasts, warnings about hazardous conditions, and the collection, quality control, verification, archiving, and dissemination of hydrometeorological data and products.
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One of the semipermanent highs of the subtropical high pressure belt. These highs appear as centers of action on mean charts of sea level pressure, generally between 20° and 40° latitude. They lie over the oceans and are best developed in the summer season. See Azores high, Bermuda high, Pacific high.
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