AG Vocabulary
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- Scientific term for a contour
- isohypse
- Line of constant mixing ratio
- isodrosotherms
- Long Wave
- wave located in the major belt of the westerlies, characterized by large length and significant amplitude
- Basic eccentrincity formula
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Ec= V-V -2C
Ec = crictical e. value
V = wind speed south of the closed low
V = wind speed north of the closed low
C = speed of the closed low in knots - temperature advection
- Transport of air of different density into a region
- Corona
- layer of solar atmosphere of low density and high temperature which extends far out into interplanetary space by the force of the solar wind
- Actual visible surface of the sun
- photosphere
- Force which acts to throw a parcel of air outward from the center around which it is moving in a curved path
- centrifugal force
- streamline within the wind field away from which neighboring streamlines diverge
- positive asymptote
- Singular point
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1) point into which more than one streamline can be drawn
2) about which the streamlines form a closed curve - Cusp
- intermediate short-lived patterns in the transition between wave and vortex
- A line of cumulus congestus or cumulonimbus clouds which simulate high latitude cold fronts
- Equatorial front
- Any line or narrow atmospheric zone across which there is an abrupt change in the horizontal component of the wind parallel to the line
- Shear zone
- Tropical wave
- A trough or cyclonic curvature maximum located within the trade wind easterlies
- Critical temperature
- The surface temperature which is necessary for the dissipation of fog to occur at a given location