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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, ...
A state of torpidity induced in some animals by the heat and dryness of the summer.
Industry:Weather
A strong, gusty, wind that occurs on the upper course of the Amu Darya (river) in Turkmenistan (i.e., coming from Afghanistan). It is preceded and accompanied by duststorms.
Industry:Weather
A low-level easterly jet in the summer months over the Sahara Desert of North Africa. The wave disturbances drawing energy from this jet propagate westward to the Atlantic Ocean. They are also known as African waves. Some of them under favorable conditions become hurricanes that reach North America. Compare easterly wave.
Industry:Weather
1. A broad arc occasionally seen in the solar (as opposed to antisolar) sky during the darker half of civil twilight and, in principle, during nautical and astronomical twilight. The afterglow chiefly consists of the purple light and bright segment. 2. A stage of the alpenglow in which mountaintops are visibly colored by the purple light.
Industry:Weather
The trapping of acoustic energy near the surface of the ocean as the result of solar heating on days with low winds.
Industry:Weather
In oceanography, the time interval between an astronomical event and the corresponding tidal phenomenon. For example, the old oceanographic term for the lag in days between the occurrence of syzygy and the highest spring tide is the “age of the tide;” the lag between perigee and the highest perigean tide is the “age of parallax inequality. ”
Industry:Weather
The transport of atmospheric properties by and in the direction of the ageostrophic wind.
Industry:Weather
