Glossary of meteorology

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This glossary of meteorology is a list of definitions about meteorology, its sub-disciplines, and related fields.

A

• Aerography –
• Air mass –
• Almanac – annual publication of calendar events
• Altocumulus cloud –
• Altostratus cloud –
• Anabatic wind –
• Anemometer – A scientific instrument used to measure wind speed.
• Annular tropical cyclone –
• Anticyclone –
• Arcus cloud –
• Atlantic hurricane –
• Atmospheric convection –
• Atmospheric pressure –
• Atmospheric sciences –
• Autumn –

B

• Barograph –
• Barometer – A scientific instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.
• Beaufort scale –
• Black ice –
• Blizzard –
• Blowing snow –

C

• Capping inversion –
• Ceiling balloon –
• Ceiling projector –
• Ceilometer –
• Cirrocumulus cloud –
• Cirrostratus cloud –
• Cirrus cloud –
• Clear ice –
• Climate –
• Climatology –
• Cloud –
• Cloudburst –
• Cold front –
• Cold wave –
• Convective available potential energy –
• Convective condensation level –
• Cumulonimbus cloud –
• Cumulus congestus cloud –
• Cumulus humilis cloud –
• Cumulus mediocris cloud –
• Cyclone –

D

• Dark adaptor goggles –
• Dawn –
• Daytime –
• Deformation –
• Dense fog –
• Depression –
• Derecho –
• Detention basin –
• Detention dam –
• Dew –
• Dew point –
• Dew point depression –
• Diablo wind –
• Diamond dust –
• Diffluence –
• Diffuse sky radiation –
• Disdrometer –
• Diurnal temperature variation –
• Dobson unit –
• Doldrums –
• Doppler radar –
• Downburst –
• Downdraft –
• Drifting snow –
• Drizzle –
• Drought –
• Dry line –
• Dry microburst –
• Dry punch –
• Dry season –
• Dry thunderstorm –
• Dust devil –
• Dust storm –

E

• El Niño –
• El Niño–Southern Oscillation –
• European windstorm –
• Explosive cyclogenesis –
• Extratropical cyclone –
• Extreme weather –

F

• Field mill –
• Fire whirl –
• Firestorm –
• Flash flood –
• Flash freezing –
• Flood –
• Fog –
• Foehn wind –
• Freezing drizzle –
• Freezing fog –
• Freezing rain –
• Frost –

G

• Gale –
• Gale warning –
• Glaze –
• Graupel –
• Ground blizzard –

H

• Haboob –
• Hail –
• Haines Index –
• Hard rime –
• Haze –
• Hazardous seas warning –
• Hazardous seas watch –
• Heat burst –
• Heat index –
• Heat lightning –
• Heat wave –
• Heavy snow warning –
• High-pressure area –
• Humidity –
• Hurricane –
• Hurricane hunters –
• Hygrometer – A scientific instrument used to measure humidity.
• Hydrometeorology –

I

• Ice –
• Ice accretion indicator –
• Ice pellets –
• Ice storm –

J

• Jet stream –

K

• Köppen climate classification –

L

• La Niña –
• Lake-effect snow –
• Land breeze –
• Landfall –
• Landspout –
• Lapse rate –
• Latitude –
• Lee wave –
• Lenticular cloud –
• Level of free convection –
• Lidar –
• Lifted condensation level –
• Lifted index –
• Lightning –
• Lightning activity level –
• Lightning detection –
• Lightning strike –
• Line echo wave pattern –
• Longitude –
• Low-level windshear alert system –
• Low-pressure area –

M

• Mesocyclone –
• Mesoscale meteorology –
• Meteorology –
• Microburst –
• Microscale meteorology –
• Monsoon –
• Mudflow –

N

• Nephelometer –
• Nephoscope –
• Nimbostratus cloud –
• Noctilucent cloud –
• Nor'easter –
• Numerical weather prediction –

P

• Pilot report –
• Polar mesospheric cloud –
• Polar stratospheric cloud –
• Polar vortex –
• Precipitation –
• Prevailing winds –
• Pulse storm –
• Pyranometer –

R

• Radiosonde –
• Rain –
• Rainbow –
• Rain and snow mixed –
• Rain gauge –
• Rain shadow –
• Rapid intensification –
• Rear flank downdraft –
• Relative humidity –

S

• Sea breeze –
• Season –
• Severe thunderstorm –
• Severe weather –
• Simoom –
• Sirocco –
• Slush –
• Snow –
• Snow gauge –
• Snow roller –
• Snow grains –
• Snowsquall –
• SODAR –
• Solarimeter –
• Sounding rocket –
• Spring –
• Sprite –
• Stationary front –
• Stevenson screen –
• Storm –
• Storm cell –
• Storm surge –
• Stratocumulus cloud –
• Stratus cloud –
• Summer –
• Sunshine recorder –
• Supercell –
• Surface weather analysis –
• Synoptic scale meteorology –

T

• Temperature –
• Thermo-hygrograph –
• Thermometer –
• Thundersnow –
• Thunderstorm –
• Tornado –
• Tornado warning –
• Tornado watch –
• Tropical cyclone –
• Tropical cyclone scales –
• Tropical disturbance –
• Tropics –
• Twilight –
• Typhoon –

U

• Updraft –

V

• Vertical draft –

W

• Wall cloud –
• Warm front –
• Waterspout –
• Weather –
• Weather balloon –
• Weather front –
• Weather forecasting –
• Weather map –
• Weather radar –
• Weather reconnaissance –
• Weather satellite –
• Weather station –
• Weather vane –
• Wet season –
• Whirlwind –
• Wind chill –
• Wind direction –
• Wind gradient –
• Wind shear –
• Wind speed –
• Windsock –
• Winter –
• Winter storm –

Z

• Zonal flow –

See also

• Meteorology –
• Outline of meteorology –
• Timeline of meteorology –
• List of weather instruments –
• Atmospheric sciences –
• Climate –
• Weather –