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Climate change refers to the variation in the Earth's green house or regional climates over time.
Energy - the capacity for doing work and overcoming resistance
Entropy - the amount of Energy that is not available for work during a certain process ...
Energy Helicity Index (or EHI) - An index that incorporates vertical shear and instability, designed for the purpose of forecasting supercell thunderstorms.
Energy: The capacity to do work. Energy must be conserved, though it can be converted between different forms.
Equinoxes: The time at which the Sun passes directly overhead at the equator at noon.
Energy Dissipator
In hydrologic terms, a structure which slows fast-moving spillway flows in order to prevent erosion of the stream channel.
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Energy Budget A quantitative description of the energy exchange for a physical or ecological system. The budget includes terms for radiation, conduction, convection, latent heat, and for sources and sinks of energy.
Solar Energy- The energy produced by the sun.
Sounder- A special kind of radiometer that measures changes in atmospheric temperature with height, as well as the content of various chemical species in the atmosphere at various levels.
Law of energy conservation Energy is neither created nor destroyed but can change from one form to another; same as the first law of thermodynamics.
kinetic energy"The energy that a body possesses as a consequence of its motion, defined as one- half the product of its mass and the square of its speed, (1/2)mv2.
Kinetic energy - The energy of motion; the energy an object has as a result of its motion.
Kinetic Energy
Energy that a body has as a result of its motion. Mathematically, it is defined as one-half the product of a body's mass and the square of its speed (KE = 1/2 * mass * velocity squared).
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Energy that a body has as a result of its motion.
Radiant energy (radiation) Energy propagated in the form of electromagnetic waves. These waves do not need molecules to propagate them, and in a vacuum they travel at nearly 300,000 kilometers per second.
Surface Energy Budget
The energy or heat budget at the earth's surface, considered in terms of the fluxes through a plane at the earth-atmosphere interface. The energy budget includes radiative, sensible, latent and ground heat fluxes.
Energy transport through electromagnetic waves. See shortwave radiation and longwave radiation.
Radiation Fog
A fog that forms when outgoing longwave radiation cools the near-surface air below its dew point temperature.
ENERGY-HELICITY INDEX - An important instability and directional wind-shear index for determining the severity of thunderstorms based on the CAPE and helicity present in the storm environment.
The energy produced by the sun.
Solstice
The time of year when the sun is the farthest north or the farthest south (about June 21 and December 21).
The energy return of a radar signal after it has hit the target.
Related term: radar echo
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Solar Energy- The energy produced by the sun.
Solstice- The time of year when the sun is the farthest north or the farthest south (about June 21 and December 21).
Squall Line- A line of thunderstorms that forms along a front.
Heat- The energy transferred from a hotter object to a cooler one
Humidity- A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
Hurricane- A tropical storm that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher; typically about 600 kilometers across.
A wave of energy sent across space. Examples include heat and light energy
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potential energy - The energy a system has by virtue of its position; the negative of the work done in taking a system from a reference configuration, where the potential energy is assigned the value zero, to a given configuration, ...
Radiation - Energy emitted in the form of electromagnetic waves. Radiation has differing characteristics depending upon the wavelength.
Echo - The energy received on radar that results from back-scattered energy; indicates the presence of precipitation (targets).
EL - Equilibrium Level. The level where unstable air becomes stable again.
LATENT HEAT- Energy released or absorbed that changes the temperature of the surrounding environment but NOT the material releasing or absorbing the latent heat.
Some clouds at this level are cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratusHigh Energy EventIn solar-terrestrial terms, flares (class two or more) with outstanding Centimetric Bursts and SID.
A measure of the energy in the air. The more heat energy in the air, the higher the temperature. As the surface warms in reaction to the sun's heat, it also warms the air above it.
Pumping Head Energy given to a fluid by a pump, usually expressed in feet of fluid (foot pounds per pound).
PVA
An acronym for Positive Vorticity Advection.
HEAT
A form of energy transferred between two systems by virtue of a difference in temperature. The first law of thermodynamics demonstrated that the heat absorbed by a system may be used by the system to do work or to raise its internal energy.
The WMO building's energy efficient air circulation system uses "Canadian Wells". These store cold fresh air under the building at night, and as it warms it rises throughout the building during the day maintaining 20-26 degree temperature.
transfer - See energy transfer, conduction, mixing, exchange coefficients, transport.
LATENT HEAT The energy released or absorbed during a change of state. Related terms: condensation and sublimation ...
Radar Cross SectionThe area of a fictitious, perfect reflector of electromagnetic waves (e.g., metal sphere) that would reflect the same amount of energy back to the radar as the actual target (e.g., lumpy snowflake).
It is a unit of heat energy. CAP Composed of a layer of warmer, dryer air aloft which may suppress or delay the development of thunderstorms. As an air parcel rises into this area, it becomes too cool to rise further. Also referred to as a lid.
In scattering no energy transformation results, only a change in the spatial distribution of the radiation. Along with absorption, scattering is a major cause of the attenuation of radiation by the atmosphere.
Department of Energy.Science Team Executive Committee (STEC)The committee that provides recommendations, prioritization, coordination of activities, and program vision to the U.S.
sea surface temperature anomalies Temperature of emitted energy from the sea surface. SST anomaly = (SST - SST mean).
Back Scatter: A signal that is energy reflected by precipitation or ground clutter.
Ball Lightning: It is a rare ball of electrical charged air redish in color which last for a very short duration.
They are fed by the energy released from moist warm air from the summer-heated tropical seas, producing equatorial rain bands and low pressure. The Atlantic season lasts from June to November.
Decibel (dB): This is a logarithmic expression comparing the energy that the radar emits (Z1) to the energy that radar receives back from a radar target (Z2). It is expressed mathematically as ...
The value of Z is a function of the amount of radar beam energy that is backscattered by a target and detected as a signal (or echo). Higher values of Z (and dBZ) thus indicate more energy being backscattered by a target.
Heating Degree Days measure heating energy demand. It is a measure to indicate how far the average temperature fell below 65oF.
This process releases energy to the atmosphere (at the rate of 585 calories per gram of water).
If the transmitted radio signal reaches a target, then most of the energy is scattered, but some will be reflected back to the radar receiver. The presence of the target can be confirmed by the reflected signal.
Ultraviolet Radiation: Ultraviolet radiation (UV) is one form of radiant energy coming from the sun. The sun emits a range of energy known as the electromagnetic spectrum.
Such ascent/descent is said to be adiabatic, which means that the energy/heat changes are confined to that particular parcel.
Provided the parcel is warmer (less dense) than the environmental air through which it is passing, it is buoyant, and rises.
Color enhancement is a procedure where specified levels of energy -- in this example, infrared energy -- are given a specific color. this makes locations with the desired energies easier to locate.
A measure of the amount of energy available for convection. CAPE is directly related to the maximum potential vertical speed within an updraft; thus higher values indicate greater potential for severe weather.
When the sun's energy reaches the earth some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed. The absorbed energy warms the Earth's surface, which then emits heat energy back toward space as long wave radiation.
INSIDE SLIDER: A term used to describe a weather system that moves into California from the northwest, with the bulk of the system's energy moving inland toward the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin.
9% of its energy output falls within the wavelength interval from 0.15 to 4.0 μm, with peak intensity near 0.5 μm. About one-half of the total energy in the solar beam is contained within the visible spectrum from 0.4 to 0.
Once formed, a tropical cyclone is maintained by the extraction of heat energy from the ocean at high temperature and heat export at the low temperatures of the upper troposphere.
The expansion results in cooling because energy is used to separate the molecules.
Sinking air compresses as the pressure of the surrounding air increases (there is more air above it).
Radiation 1) Emission or transfer of energy in the form of electromagnetic waves. 2) The process by which electromagnetic radiation is propagated through free space by virtue of joint undulatory variations in the electric and magnetic fields in ...
convection: vertical energy transfer in the atmosphere.
cooling degree day: a measurement used to determine how much fuel will be needed to cool indoor environments.
Insolation - heat energy that arrives at the surface of the earth.
Inversion - a layer of very stable air. Temperature increases with height.
Subsidence inversion - sinking air compresses and becomes warmer than air below.
ANGULAR MOMENTUM - the energy of motion of a spinning body or mass of air or water.
ANTICYCLONE- A large area of high pressure around which the winds blow clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
Latent Heat- the heat energy that must be absorbed when a substance changes from solid to liquid and liquid to gas, and which is released when a gas condenses and a liquid solidifies.
LANGLEY: A unit of energy per unit area, equal to 1 gramcalorie/cm² and commonly employed in radiation measurement.
LEEWARD: Facing away from the wind. ...
Radiation
Emission or transfer of energy in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles.
Radon
A gas emitted by radioactive material in the Earth's crust and forming a minute constituency of the air near the ground.
 See also: Temperature, Air, Water, Surface, Atmosphere
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