ENVIRONMENT
The sum total of all the external conditions that effect an organism, community, material, or energy.
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Environmental chemistry is the scientific study of the physical, chemical and biochemical properties and processes of polluting substances in the environment.
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Dangers to the Environment damage to trees and threat to animals
The picture below shows a tree nearly bent in half from the weight of the ice on its branches. Entire trees break in half when the weight of the ice becomes too great.
environment - External conditions and surroundings, especially those that affect the quality of life of plants, animals, and human beings. In agriculture the environment includes the air, soil, and water conditions.
Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) This is one of 9 centers that comprises the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).
environmental lapse rate: the rate of decrease of air temperature as altitude increases. Is compared to the dry adiabatic lapse rate or moist adiabatic lapse rate to determine vertical motions of an air parcel.
Environment Canada
The Canadian federal government department responsible for issuing weather forecasts and weather warnings in Canada.
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Environmental Lapse Rate - The rate of temperature decrease with height in the troposphere.
Equatorial Low - A quasi-continuous belt of low pressure lying near the equator and between the subtropical highs.
Environment The complex of physical, chemical, and biological factors in which a living organism or community exists.
EOS See Earth Observing System.
EOSDIS See Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
Space Environment Center
(SEC) - This center provides real-time monitoring and forecasting of solar and geophysical events, conducts research in solar-terrestrial physics, and develops techniques for forecasting solar and geophysical disturbances.
Environmental factors, including weather and climate are central elements in determining health patterns around the world.
The direct and indirect effects of weather and climate on health are given below: ...
Environmental lapse rate - the rate of temperature change actually measured in the atmosphere.
Advection - air and its properties, such as temperature, moving across something. Like a lake, or a map.
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Environmental science
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Environmental Lapse Rate
The actual change of temperature with height through the atmosphere.
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STORM ENVIRONMENT - Estimation of wind, moisture, and temperature parameters independent of any storm that may be in that environment. This includes jet stream winds, dewpoints, etc.
General Environmental Meteorological Package (programming language)
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Qualified Environmental Professional
The QEP is a multi-media, multi-disciplinary, fully accredited credential that requires environmental professionals to see "the big picture" and to have the skills and knowledge to solve "real world problems".
mesic environment A habitat with a moderate amount of water. mesoscale eddies (mode eddies) In the ocean, dense and irregularly-oval high- and low- pressure centers about 400 km in diameter.
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normal lapse rate is a global average rate of temperature reduction with elevation (6.4 °C/1000 m)
environmental lapse rate is the actual lapse rate on a given day at a specific location ...
Any probe of the environment made to obtain information at various levels.
NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service): NESDIS collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates various types of hydrologic, meteorologic, and oceanic data.
LIFTED INDEX- The environmental temperature at 500 millibars minus the 500 millibar parcel temperature on a Skew-T diagram. Negative LI values are unstable. ...
It is determined by lifting an air parcel to 500 millibars and then comparing its temperature to that of the environment. If the parcel is colder than its new environment, then the atmosphere is more stable.
They are obtained on a sounding by computing the area enclosed between the environmental temperature profile and the path of a rising air parcel, over the layer within which the latter is cooler than the former.
Transverse rolls are one type of transverse band, and often indicate an environment favorable for the subsequent development of supercells.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Canadian hardness-gauge A type of disk hardness-gauge, especially useful in relatively soft snow. See disk hardness gauge.
Acid PrecipitationPrecipitation, such as rain, snow or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid-forming chemicals that have been released into the atmosphere and combined with water vapor; harmful to the environment.
absolutely stable airAn atmospheric condition that exists when the environmental lapse rate is less than the moist adiabatic lapse rate.
Under such conditions a parcel of air at the environmental temperature is unstable to upward vertical displacements if it is saturated, unstable to downward displacements if it is saturated and contains cloud water, ...
>> Hurricanes, or tropical cyclones, form in an environment of little or no vertical wind shear.
Dvorak Technique In 1975, Vern Dvorak, a meteorologist with the National Environmental Satellite Services, derived a method to analyze and predict tropical storm intensity based on real-time satellite imagery.
NOAA, Environmental Research Laboratories, National Severe Storms Laboratory.
Doswell, Charles A. III, 1982: The Operational Meteorology of Convective Weather. Volume I: Operational Mesoanalysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS NSSFC-5.
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.)
EPS - European Polar Satellite
ER-2 - Earth Resources (plane), #2 (NASA)
ERBE - Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
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National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) - The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), ...
Observed values in thunderstorm environments often may exceed 1,000 joules per kilogram (j/kg), and in extreme cases may exceed 5,000 j/kg.
NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION (NCEP)
As part of the National Weather Service, the centers provide timely, accurate, and continually improving worldwide forecast guidance products.
For over a decade, I worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment first as a meteorologist and later as head of air quality assessment. In the late 1970s I enjoyed doing some freelance writing on weather and weather history in my spare time.
However, the condensation is caused not by a reduction in ground temperature, but by moist air drifting into a cold environment (or cold air moving into a moist environment).
GEOPHYSICS The study of the physics or nature of the Earth and its environment. It deals with the composition and physical phenomena of the earth and its liquid and gaseous envelopes.
This Center is one of several centers under the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) part of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The global implementation of the Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model run by Environment Canada, run twice daily at high resolution out to +144 hours.
Cold advection
Transport of cold air into a region by horizontal winds. See advection.
GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GREENHOUSE EFFECT: The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of longwave radiation being radiated to space.
Electromagnetic radiation All objects above the temperature of absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius) radiate energy to their surrounding environment.
GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
GUST: A brief, sudden increase in wind speed with a fluctuation greater than 10 knots during a period less than 30 seconds.
GOES-8 - One of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. They are owned and run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), while NASA designs and launches them.
BALLOONING - A sudden, often unexpected increase in nose attitude while in ground effect caused by environmental factors or excessive lift.
BASE LEG - The leg of a traffic pattern which is 90 degrees perpendicular to the landing (final approach) leg.
Entrainment - The act of air being drawn into a cloud from the non-cloud environment.
Entropy - The measure of the randomness in a system. Also, the amount of thermal energy that is unavailable to do work.
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Geostationary satellite designed to monitor weather systems.
SENSOR: The part of a measuring instrument which responds directly to changes in the environment.
SERIAL OUTPUT: A digital data output in which the characters are sent one bit at a time over a single communication path.
Saturation The condition in which the partial pressure of any fluid constituent (water in the atmospheric air) is equal to its maximum possible partial pressure under the existing environmental conditions, ...
Deposition of acidic substances, resulting from long-range atmospheric transport of pollutants such as sulfur and nitrogen, which produce enhanced environmental acidification when they reach the Earth's surface.
 See also: Air, Weather, Temperature, Surface, Cloud
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