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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supercells; see glossary of tornado terms § S Supernova Cosmology Project, one of the physics research teams discovered that the expansion of the universe...

glossary of wildfire terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to wildfires and wildland firefighting. Except where noted, terms have...

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...

climatology, dynamic climatology, tornado climatology, regional climatology, bioclimatology, and synoptic climatology. The study of the hydrological cycle over...

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:...

mass chills rest of North America. Canadian Broadcasting Centre. Retrieved on 2009-02-16. Glossary of Meteorology (2009). Level of nondivergence. American...

Glossary. NOAA / National Weather Service. Retrieved 2 May 2010. "Occluded front". Glossary – Weather World 2010 Project. Online guide. Department of...

"AMS Glossary of Meteorology". American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2008. Online Glossary of Meteorology...

thunderstorms, tornadoes, gravity waves, tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, jet streams, and global-scale circulations. The goal of dynamical studies...

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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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than any tornado that may develop within it, and it is within mesocyclones that intense tornadoes form. Mesocyclones are medium-scale vortices of rising...

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...

the Wayback Machine, chapter 8 in Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd ed. Ackerman, p. 109 Glossary of Meteorology (2009). "Radiational cooling". American...

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Retrieved on 2009-04-23. Glossary of Meteorology (2009). Radar. American Meteorological Society. Retrieved...

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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...

for a tornado not associated with a mesocyclone. The Glossary of Meteorology defines a landspout: "Colloquial expression describing tornadoes occurring...

The phenomenon is sometimes labeled a fire tornado, firenado, fire swirl, or fire twister, but these terms usually refer to a separate phenomenon where...

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...

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...

2009-02-05. National Hurricane Center (2009). Glossary of NHC Terms: Direct Hit. Retrieved on 2009-02-05. Glossary of Meteorology (2009). Waterspout. Archived...

and wildfires are forms and effects, as are thunderstorms, downbursts, tornadoes, waterspouts, tropical cyclones, and extratropical cyclones. Regional...

this time of year, because of snow-melt which is accelerated by warm rains. In North America, Tornado Alley is most active at this time of year, especially...

Plains of the United States in an area known as Tornado Alley. A high number of supercells are seen in many parts of Europe as well as in the Tornado Corridor...