Meteorology

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8 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Meteorology.

• Convective available potential energy — The vertical integral of positive parcel buoyancy that estimates the maximum kinetic energy per unit mass available to atmospheric convection.
• Freezing rain — Supercooled liquid precipitation that freezes on contact with surfaces at or below freezing, producing a coating of glaze ice.
• Frontolysis — The weakening or dissipation of an atmospheric front as the horizontal temperature gradient decreases.
• Line Echo Wave Pattern — A wave-like weather-radar configuration produced when portions of a convective line accelerate unevenly, forming one or more bulges or bow echoes associated with enhanced damaging-wind and sometimes tornado risk.
• Meteorological intelligence — Decision-relevant characterization or prediction of atmospheric conditions produced by gathering, analyzing and disseminating weather and climate information.
• Storm — Recognize a coherent, bounded atmospheric disturbance as a storm when its circulation, wind, precipitation, electrical, particulate, or related weather processes substantially depart from the relevant background regime, while keeping subtype-specific mechanisms and thresholds explicit.
• Tropical cyclone — A warm-core rotating low-pressure storm organized around a closed surface circulation and deep convection over tropical or subtropical waters.
• Waterspout — Form a vertically oriented atmospheric vortex in contact with a water surface, with fair-weather and tornadic types distinguished by their parent circulation and development mechanism.