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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, ...
Statements issued by a weather service that discuss weather situations of inconvenience that do not carry the danger of warning criteria, but, if not observed, could lead to hazardous situations. Some examples include snow advisories stating possible slick streets, or fog advisories for patchy fog condition causing temporary restrictions to visibility. See also special weather statements.
Industry:Weather
1. A type of fog caused by the advection of moist air over a cold surface, and the consequent cooling of that air to below its dewpoint. A very common advection fog is that caused by moist air over a cold body of water (sea fog). 2. Sometimes applied to steam fog.
Industry:Weather
The occurrence of frost as a result of the horizontal transport (advection) of a cold air mass with air temperature below 0°C. This type of frost is responsible for causing damage to agricultural areas of south Florida and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during cold polar outbreaks. Compare radiation fog.
Industry:Weather
The contribution to local temperature change that is caused by the horizontal or vertical advection of air. The horizontal component of change, usually the most important in the troposphere, is proportional to the horizontal temperature gradient and the magnitude of the component of the wind in the direction of the gradient. The vertical component is proportional to the vertical velocity and the static stability and depends also on whether the air is saturated.
Industry:Weather
An advanced version of the MSU on POES satellites that will replace the older MSU and SSU instruments, starting with NOAA-15 launched on 13 May 1998.
Industry:Weather
A sensor carried on board NOAA satellites used in meteorology and oceanography for measurements of cloud cover and sea surface temperature. • Channel 1: 580–680 nm
• Channel 2: 725–1100 nm
• Channel 3: 3550–3930 nm
• Channel 4: 10. 3–11. 3 μm
• Channel 5: 11. 4–12. 4 μm.
Industry:Weather
A Japanese remote sensing satellite designed to collect worldwide environmental data from a sophisticated suite of sensors. The core sensors on ADEOS are an advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer and an ocean color and temperature sensor. Additional instruments on ADEOS include the NASA scatterometer, a total ozone mapping spectrometer, an instrument to measure the polarization and directionality of the earth's reflectance, an interferometric monitor for greenhouse gases, an improved limb atmospheric spectrometer, and a retroreflector in space. ADEOS was launched on 17 August 1996, into a sun-synchronous orbit. The satellite failed on 29 June 1997, but will be replaced by other satellites in the ADEOS series.
Industry:Weather
ABI is a 16 channel high-resolution imaging radiometer being designed for the GOES-R series of satellites covering visible, short, mid- and long-wavelength infrared spectral regions. The visible and near-infrared channels will provide 500 m (one channel only) or 1 km resolution imagery at nadir, while the remaining infrared channels will have a nadir resolution of 2 km.
Industry:Weather
