- Industry: Weather
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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 strong southeasterly wind on the Malabar Coast of India in September and October, at the end of the southwest monsoon. It brings thundersqualls and heavy rain.
Industry:Weather
1. Smallest entity that is capable of possessing chemical characteristics and that cannot be changed into smaller neutral units by chemical reaction. Elements in their pure form may exist in atomic forms, for example, He, Ne, or may be associated into molecular units such as H2, O2, graphite, or diamond. 2. Any one of the properties or conditions of the atmosphere that together specify the physical state of weather or climate at a given place for any particular moment or period of time; the climatic elements, meteorological elements. 3. The smallest definable object of interest in a scene. It is a single item in a collection, population, or sample.
Industry:Weather
A device for removing particulate matter from smokestack exhaust gas by imparting an electric charge to the particles and then attracting them to a metal plate or screen of opposite charge before the gas is exhausted out of the top of the stack.
Industry:Weather
A layer of the atmosphere, beginning a few tens of kilometers above the surface of the earth and extending to the ionosphere, in which the electrical conductivity is so high that the layer is essentially at a constant electric potential.
Industry:Weather
In subsurface hydrology, the movement of liquid in a porous medium due to differences in electric potential.
Industry:Weather
A general name for instruments that detect the presence of (but do not necessarily measure) small electrical charges by electrostatic means. Compare electrometer.
Industry:Weather
A change in the electronic configuration of a chemical species that occurs following the absorption of a photon (usually in the visible or ultraviolet region of the spectrum).
Industry:Weather
A thermometer that uses electronic circuitry to detect temperature-induced changes in a thermal element and display the corresponding temperature in a digital form. The most common sensor of this type is a thermistor.
Industry:Weather
The kinetic energy acquired by an electron accelerated from rest through a potential difference of one volt (1. 6 x 10−19 J).
Industry:Weather
