The following is a glossary of tornado terms. It includes scientific as well as selected informal terminology. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R...
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This glossary of meteorology is a list of terms and concepts relevant to meteorology and atmospheric science, their sub-disciplines, and related fields...
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supercells; see glossary of tornado terms § S Supernova Cosmology Project, one of the physics research teams discovered that the expansion of the universe...
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The following is a glossary of tropical cyclone terms. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z References Advisory Official information...
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glossary of wildfire terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to wildfires and wildland firefighting. Except where noted, terms have...
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Climatology (redirect from History of climatology)
climatology, dynamic climatology, tornado climatology, regional climatology, bioclimatology, and synoptic climatology. The study of the hydrological cycle over...
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such as the magnitudes of day-to-day or year-to-year variations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2001 glossary definition is as follows:...
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mass chills rest of North America. Canadian Broadcasting Centre. Retrieved on 2009-02-16. Glossary of Meteorology (2009). Level of nondivergence. American...
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Meteorology (redirect from Slight Risk Of Severe Thunderstorms)
"AMS Glossary of Meteorology". American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2008. Online Glossary of Meteorology...
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Glossary. NOAA / National Weather Service. Retrieved 2 May 2010. "Occluded front". Glossary – Weather World 2010 Project. Online guide. Department of...
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thunderstorms, tornadoes, gravity waves, tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, jet streams, and global-scale circulations. The goal of dynamical studies...
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glossary of climate change glossary of environmental science glossary of tornado terms glossary of tropical cyclone terms glossary of wildfire terms gustnado...
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media related to Tornadoes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pictures of tornadoes. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact...
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wall cloud).[citation needed] Tornado outbreak Tornadogenesis Tornado intensity A Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters Doswell, Charles...
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Mesocyclone (redirect from Tornado cyclone)
than any tornado that may develop within it, and it is within mesocyclones that intense tornadoes form. Mesocyclones are medium-scale vortices of rising...
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Atmospheric chemistry (redirect from History of atmospheric chemistry)
IUPAC Subcommittee for Gas Kinetic Data Evaluation Atmospheric Chemistry Glossary at Sam Houston State University Tropospheric chemistry Calculators for...
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Wall cloud (section Supercell and tornado significance)
and often abrupt lowering of cloud that develops beneath the surrounding base of a cumulonimbus cloud and from which tornadoes sometimes form. It is typically...
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Cloud physics (redirect from Physics of clouds)
the Wayback Machine, chapter 8 in Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd ed. Ackerman, p. 109 Glossary of Meteorology (2009). "Radiational cooling". American...
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Atmospheric physics (category Branches of meteorology)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Retrieved on 2009-04-23. Glossary of Meteorology (2009). Radar. American Meteorological Society. Retrieved...
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Climate variability and change (redirect from Mode of variability)
transport a lot of energy from the warm tropical regions to the colder polar regions. Changes occurring around the last ice age (in technical terms, the last...
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Fire whirl (redirect from Fire tornado)
The phenomenon is sometimes labeled a fire tornado, firenado, fire swirl, or fire twister, but these terms usually refer to a separate phenomenon where...
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Landspout (redirect from Dust-tube tornado)
for a tornado not associated with a mesocyclone. The Glossary of Meteorology defines a landspout: "Colloquial expression describing tornadoes occurring...
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Cyclone (category Types of cyclone)
hurricane Australian region tropical cyclone Space hurricane Space tornado Glossary of Meteorology (June 2000). "Cyclonic circulation". American Meteorological...
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refer to Glossary of firefighting equipment for such terms. Similarly, although there is much overlap, you may also want to refer to the Glossary of wildfire...
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lightning" or "upper-atmospheric discharge" are terms aeronomers sometimes use to refer to a family of electrical-breakdown phenomena in the Earth's upper...
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Severe weather (section Tornado)
and wildfires are forms and effects, as are thunderstorms, downbursts, tornadoes, waterspouts, tropical cyclones, and extratropical cyclones. Regional...
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Landfall (section Tornado or waterspout)
2009-02-05. National Hurricane Center (2009). Glossary of NHC Terms: Direct Hit. Retrieved on 2009-02-05. Glossary of Meteorology (2009). Waterspout. Archived...
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Thunderstorm (section Tornadoes and waterspouts)
hailstone in terms of maximum circumference and length ever recorded in the United States fell in 2003 in Aurora, Nebraska, United States. A tornado is a violent...
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Funnel cloud (redirect from Tornado Funnel)
and these cannot be counted as tornadoes from the perspective of a naked eye observer, even as tornadic circulations of some intensity almost always are...
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(ignition of wildfires is sometimes by lightning strike, especially in "dry thunderstorms") Firestorm Fire whirl, also called firenado and fire tornado Floods...
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