Maritime Continent is the name given primarily by meteorologists to the region of Southeast Asia which comprises many islands, peninsulas and shallow seas.
Maritime Tropical Air Masses warm temperatures and rich in moisture ...
maritime cloud"A cloud forming in maritime air containing relatively low concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei. These clouds are characterized by a broader droplet size distribution and low droplet concentrations (some 100 cm−3).
MARITIME AIR MASS
An air mass influenced by the sea. It is a secondary characteristic of an air mass classification, signified by the small "m" before the primary characteristic, which is based on source region.
Maritime Polar Air Mass - an air mass characterized by cold, moist air
Maritime Tropical Air Mass - an air mass characterized by warm, moist air ...
MARITIME AIR MASS: Moist air mass originating over the ocean.
MILLIBAR (MB): A unit of atmospheric pressure. 1 mb = 100 Pa (pascal). Normal surface pressure is approximately 1013 millibars.
MOS: Model Output Statistics.
MARITIME AIR MASS: Moist air mass originating over the ocean.
METEOROLOGY: The study of the atmosphere and atmospheric phenomena.
MICROBURST: A strong localized downdraft from a thunderstorm with peak gusts lasting 2 to 5 minutes.
Maritime air mass An air mass that originates over the ocean. These air masses are relatively humid.
Maritime polar air Cool, humid air mass that forms over the cold ocean waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic.
MARITIME AIR MASS - Moist air mass originating over the ocean.
MCS- Mesoscale Convective System. A large cluster of thunderstorms and rain. Can be a squall line, multi-cells or a mesoscale convective complex.
Maritime polar air (mP) Cool, humid air masses that form over the cold ocean waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic.
Maritime tropical air (mT) Warm, humid air masses that form over tropical and subtropical oceans.
maritime polar air (abbreviated mP)—See polar air.
maritime tropical air (abbreviated mT)—See tropical air.
Maritime Air Mass- An air mass that forms over water. It is usually humid, and may be cold or warm.
Maximum Temperature- The highest temperature during a specified time period.
A Maritime Peril
Cyclones' chief fury is expended over the tropical coastal regions and adjacent oceans.
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) An internationally agreed upon communication system for distributing safety information, including weather warnings and forecasts, to mariners.
Marine (maritime or oceanic) climate A climate dominated by the ocean. Because of the moderating effect of water, sites having this climate are considered relatively mild.
Maritime Polar air masses orginate over the Polar regions and have the properties of Continental Polar air. As this air mass moves south and passes over warmer water, the air changes form cold air to warm air.
Maritime polar air mass - cool wet air. Think England.
Continental polar air mass - cold dry air which sometimes produces snow.
Continental arctic air mass - very cold dry air. Siberia.
Navigational Telex (Navtex): One part of Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) for automatically disseminating safety information, including weather warnings and forecasts, ...
GMDSS(Global Maritime Distress and Safety System)- The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is intended to provide more effective and efficient emergency and safety communications and disseminate Maritime Safety Information (MSI) to ...
TROPICAL CYCLONE - A large rotating convective vortex formed when warm moist air rises in maritime tropical regions during the summer and fall months when the water stores the suns heat energy from the previous months.
They are further sub-classified as either 'maritime': having passed over a sea surface, or 'continental' having moved over a land mass.
marin - A warm moist southeast wind from the sea on the French Mediterranean coast and in the Maritime Alps, especially frequent in spring and autumn. In the Rhône delta it blows also from the south.
Inmarsat-C SafetyNET is an internationally adopted, automated satellite system for promulgating weather forecasts and warnings, marine navigational warnings and other safety related information to all types vessels and is part of the Global Maritime ...
A summer high over the North American continent brings moist, unstable maritime tropical air from the Gulf over the Mississippi Valley. The thunderstorms that result are the principal source of moisture for this region.
75 mb/hr or 42 mb for 24 hoursRapidly IntensifyingAny maritime cyclone whose central pressure is dropping, or is expected to drop, at a rate of 1 MB per hour for 24 hours. RawinsondeA radiosonde that is tracked to measure winds.
Advection fog may also form when moist maritime air drifts over a cold inland area. This usually happens at night when the land temperature drops as a result of radiational cooling.
In winter the the rising branch is centered near the "maritime continent" of greater Indonesia while in summer it is centered near southern India. The sinking branches are generally found in the eastern equatorial Pacific in winter and summer.
It forms as continental air cools below the temperature of a nearby maritime airmass and sets up a thermally driven circulation. The land breeze is occasionally refered to as a katabatic wind. See also Sea breeze.
A body of air that extends hundreds or thousands of kilometers horizontally and is relatively uniform in temperature and moisture content (see continental arctic, continental polar, continental tropical, maritime polar, ...
Air Mass, Classification: They can be: polar (P), tropical (T) or equatorial (Eq); maritime (m) or continental (c); and Artic or Antarctic.
Anemometer: Instrument for measuring the speed of the wind (intensity).
January Thaw: A period of mild weather, usually following a cold spell, which often occurs in late January in the eastern regions of North America, particularly around the Great Lakes region, New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
Single waves, or an isolated train of waves that can be of considerable height and different to the prevailing ocean wave conditions and have been associated with some spectacular maritime incidents.
Dryline A narrow zone in the atmosphere along which there is an abrupt change in moisture as when dry continental
tropical air converges with humid maritime tropical air. The denser cT air acts to lift the less dense roT air producing ...
1. The movement of an atmospheric phenomenon. This term is frequently applied to the motion of thunderstorms into regions favorable for their continued development (into a maritime tropical airmass).
The scattered thunderstorms that develop in the summer are called air-mass thunderstorms because they form in warm, maritime tropical air masses away from other weather fronts.
low-level jetA regular, strong, nighttime, northward flow of maritime tropical air over the sloping Great Plains of the central United States. The wind increases to a peak in the lowest kilometer and then decreases above.
It was developed to provide a low-cost, simple, and automated means of receiving this information aboard ships at sea within approximately 200 nautical miles of shore and is an element of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS).
 See also: Air, Surface, Temperature, Water, Front
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