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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 ...
Aviation weather briefing service [6] Available at designated FSS's AWG American Wire Gage: The larger the size number, the smaller the wire diameter. AWIS Aviation weather information service [6] Available at FSS: AWO All weather operations AWOS Automated weather observation system [6] Automated METAR reporting system AWWS Aviation weather web ...
Glossary of Meteorology (American Meteorological Society) NWS Glossary (National Weather Service) Tornado FAQ (Storm Prediction Center) Storm spotter glossary (National Weather Service) TheWeatherPrediction.com (Jeff Haby) WW2010 Helper Section Index (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Basic Meteorological Terminology (Paul Sirvatka ...
A Short-Term Forecast NOW (alt., NOWcast) is an event-driven narrative outlook of near-term weather conditions within the Weather Forecast Office’s area of responsibility, typically valid for a three- to seven-hour period. The product outlines any ongoing or recently occurring conditions—based on radar analysis, satellite imagery and other ...
Pages in category "Glossaries of meteorology" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Glossary of tornado terms; Glossary of tropical cyclone ...
These terms come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency tasked with providing the National Weather Service which does forecasts and weather advisories. Landfall ...
Classes: the first and most obvious meaning is the division of an aircraft into different cabins. While many low-cost airlines are one-class only, on many BA long-haul flights there are four ...
In meteorology, an invest (short for "investigative area") [1] is a designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for potential tropical cyclone development. Invests are designated by three separate United States forecast centers: the National Hurricane Center , the Central Pacific Hurricane Center , and the Joint Typhoon Warning ...