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  2. Prognostic chart - Wikipedia

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    Surface weather prognostic charts for mariners indicate the positions of high and low pressure areas, as well as frontal zones, up to five days into the future. Surface wind direction and speed is also forecast on this type of chart. Wave prognostic charts show the expected sea state at some future time. [2]

  3. Surface weather analysis - Wikipedia

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    A surface weather analysis for the United States on October 21, 2006. By that time, Tropical Storm Paul was active (Paul later became a hurricane). Surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map that provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather stations.

  4. Surface weather observation - Wikipedia

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    Surface weather observations are the fundamental data used for safety as well as climatological reasons to forecast weather and issue warnings worldwide. [1] They can be taken manually, by a weather observer, by computer through the use of automated weather stations , or in a hybrid scheme using weather observers to augment the otherwise ...

  5. Glossary of meteorology - Wikipedia

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    Also actiniform. Describing a collection of low-lying, radially structured clouds with distinct shapes (resembling leaves or wheels in satellite imagery), and typically organized in extensive mesoscale fields over marine environments. They are closely related to and sometimes considered a variant of stratocumulus clouds. actinometer A scientific instrument used to measure the heating power of ...

  6. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols - Wikipedia

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    A letter v (Latin small letter v) written on a line representing a surface is a way to indicate that the surface is to be machined rather than left in the as-cast or as-forged state. The older symbol for this was a small script (italic) f (see herein f). Later the ASA convened upon a letter V (specifically a sans-serif V) touching the surface ...

  7. Manifold - Wikipedia

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    This example is historically significant, as it has motivated the terminology; it became apparent that the whole surface of the Earth cannot have a plane representation consisting of a single map (also called "chart", see nautical chart), and therefore one needs atlases for covering the whole Earth surface.

  8. Schwarzschild coordinates - Wikipedia

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    To embed this surface (or at an annular ring) in E 3, we adopt a frame field in E 3 which is defined on a parameterized surface, which will inherit the desired metric from the embedding space, is adapted to our radial chart, features an undetermined function (). To wit, consider the parameterized surface

  9. Computer representation of surfaces - Wikipedia

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    For example, trimming a cylinder at an angle would require such a surface face. A single surface face may span multiple surface patches on a single surface, but can't span multiple surfaces. Planar faces are similar to surface faces, but are limited by a collectively closed series of boundaries projected to an infinite plane, instead of a surface.