Weather Glossary (English-Spanish)
Company The Oxford Companion to the Earth
Definition A large-scale, atmospheric windand-pressure system characterized by low pressure at its center and by circular wind motion, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere The weather system is a local weather changes, is due to one of the moving greatly small system (high voltage and lowvoltage, etc) cause these system known as the weather system.
Context Domain The term Meteorology 'cyclone' refers to a large-scale rotating weather systems which rotate with positive vorticity
Industry Weather
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Product Category Storm
Synonym Positive vorticity advection
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Weather system
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The term Meteorology 'cyclone' refers to a large-scale rotating weather systems which rotate with positive vorticity
Weather
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Wind
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Positive vorticity
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Positive Vorticity developsin a wind field with counterclockwise curvature and/or due to shear with higher velocities on the right, as seen in flow direction.
The term Meteorology 'cyclone' refers to a large-scale rotating weather systems which rotate with positive vorticity
Weather
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Atmospheric physics
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Vorticity
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A measure of the spin of an air mass such as a low- or high-pressure weather system.
The term Meteorology 'cyclone' refers to a large-scale rotating weather systems which rotate with positive vorticity
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Fluid dynamics
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Tropical cyclone
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A tropical cyclone isa storm system characterized by a large low-pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain.
Two major types Meteorology of cyclones are tropical cyclones and extra-tropical cyclones.
Weather
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Storm
Hurricanes, typhons, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, tropical storm, cyclone
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Extra-tropical cyclone
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A cyclone in the middle or high latitudes often containing a cold front that extends toward the equator for hundreds of miles
Two major types Meteorology of cyclones are tropical cyclones and extratropical cyclones
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Storm
Mid-latitude cyclone, wave cyclone
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Depression
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A body of moving air below normal atmospheric pressure, which often brings rain The name of a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour (65 knots) or greater inthe North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. This same tropical cyclone is known as typhoon in the western Pacific and a cyclone in the Indian Ocean.
The latter are also known as depressions
Meteorology
Weather
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Storm
Lowpressure area
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HurracaneTropical cyclones Meteorology are also known as hurricanes and typhoons.
Weather
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Storm
Typhoon, tropical cyclone
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Typhoon
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The name for a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 74 miles per hour (65 knots) or greater in the western North...
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