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K-index (meteorology) Lightning. The K-Index or George's Index is a measure of thunderstorm potential in meteorology. According to the National Weather Service, the index harnesses measurements such as "vertical temperature lapse rate, moisture content of the lower atmosphere, and the vertical extent of the moist layer." [1]
College of DuPage is a public community college with its main campus in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. [3] The college also owns and operates satellite campuses in Addison, Carol Stream, Naperville and Westmont. [4] [5] With more than 20,000 students, the College of DuPage is the second largest provider of undergraduate education in Illinois, after ...
Isentropic analysis is a technique in meteorology to find the vertical and horizontal motion of airmasses during an adiabatic process above the planetary boundary layer. The change of state of air parcels following isentropic surfaces does not involve exchange of heat with the environment. [1] Such an analysis can also evaluate the airmass ...
SYNOP. SYNOP ( surface synoptic observations) is a numerical code (called FM-12 by WMO) used for reporting weather observations made by staffed and automated weather stations. SYNOP reports are typically sent every six hours by Deutscher Wetterdienst on shortwave and low frequency using RTTY. A report consists of groups of numbers (and slashes ...
The Climate Prediction Center ( CPC) is a United States federal agency that is one of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, which are a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 's National Weather Service. CPC is headquartered in College Park, Maryland. Its roots trace back to the climatological work of Thomas ...
Weather. Cloud physics is the study of the physical processes that lead to the formation, growth and precipitation of atmospheric clouds. These aerosols are found in the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere, which collectively make up the greatest part of the homosphere. Clouds consist of microscopic droplets of liquid water (warm clouds ...
Course assignments involve 4 major research-based projects: (1) an analysis essay, (2) an annotated bibliography, (3) a reflection essay, and (4) a Wikipedia article written and edited by you. In order to successfully produce each project, we will have to explore a variety of conventions related to writing, as well as some theoretical ideas ...
Capping inversion (cap); Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS); Center for Severe Weather Research (CSWR); Chaser convention – Originally it referred to serendipitous meeting of chasers in the field akin to "chaser convergence", but now it mostly refers to the National Storm Chasers Convention Archived 2013-06-22 at the Wayback Machine held annually in the Denver, Colorado area.