synoptic climatology
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United States tropical cyclone rainfall climatology — Long term averagesOn average, five tropical cyclones or their remnants lead to rainfall across the contiguous United States each year, contributing around a quarter of the annual rainfall to the southern United States. While many of these storms… … Wikipedia
Spatial Synoptic Classification system — Based upon the Bergeron air mass classification scheme is the Spatial Synoptic Classification system, or SSC. There are six categories within the SSC scheme: Dry Polar (similar to continental polar), Dry Moderate (similar to maritime superior),… … Wikipedia
Derecho — A shelf cloud along the leading edge of a derecho photographed in Minnesota A derecho (from Spanish: derecho meaning straight ) is a widespread and long lived, violent convectively induced straight line windstorm that is associated with a fast… … Wikipedia
Arctic Cordillera — Geobox | Range name=Arctic Cordillera other name=Arctic Rockies image size=275 image caption=Baffin Mountains at the northern end of Auyuittuq National Park country=Canada region=Labrador region1=Baffin Island region2=Devon Island… … Wikipedia
Kona storm — Kona storms are a type of seasonal, subtropical cyclone in the Hawaiian Islands, usually formed in the winter from winds coming from the kona or leeward direction. Otkin and Martin identified three types of kona storms: cold frontal cyclogenesis… … Wikipedia
Arktische Kordillere — dep2 Arktische Kordillere Lage der Arktischen Kordillere … Deutsch Wikipedia
Cordillera Ártica — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Cordillera Ártica (Arctic Cordillera[1] o Arctic Rockies) … Wikipedia Español
Meteorology — For other uses of the root word meteor , see Meteor (disambiguation). For the work by Aristotle, see Meteorology (Aristotle). Not to be confused with Metrology. Part of the Nature series on Weather … Wikipedia
climate — /kluy mit/, n. 1. the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years. 2. a region or… … Universalium
Climate — For other uses, see Climate (disambiguation). Worldwide Climate Classifications Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature … Wikipedia
