Weather Glossary (English-Spanish)

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Term Cyclone

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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Part of Speech Noun

Product

Product Category Storm

Synonym Positive vorticity advection

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Sources definition Sources http://dictionary.reference.com /browse/cyclon e

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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

Noun

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

Noun

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

Physics

Noun

Fluid dynamics

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Tropical cyclone

The Oxford Companio n to the Earth

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

Noun

Storm

Hurricanes, typhons, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, tropical storm, cyclone

The synonmys http://en.wikip are not exacly edia.org/wiki/Tra complete opical_cyclone synoym since depending on its location and strength they are named

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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

WeatherNoun

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

Noun

Storm

Lowpressure area

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HurracaneTropical cyclones Meteorology are also known as hurricanes and typhoons.

Weather

Noun

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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