{
  "id": "meteorology-terms",
  "name": "Meteorology Terms",
  "title": "Meteorology Terms",
  "description": "A reference list of 653 meteorological and weather-science terms.",
  "category": "science",
  "source": "https://github.com/dariusk/corpora",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/dariusk/corpora",
  "updated": "2026-04",
  "record_count": 653,
  "columns": [
    {
      "key": "term",
      "label": "Term",
      "type": "string"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "term": "actinoform"
    },
    {
      "term": "actinometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "adiabatic process"
    },
    {
      "term": "advection"
    },
    {
      "term": "aerobiology"
    },
    {
      "term": "aerography"
    },
    {
      "term": "aeronomy"
    },
    {
      "term": "aerosol"
    },
    {
      "term": "ageostrophy"
    },
    {
      "term": "air current"
    },
    {
      "term": "air mass"
    },
    {
      "term": "air parcel"
    },
    {
      "term": "air-mass thunderstorm"
    },
    {
      "term": "Alberta clipper"
    },
    {
      "term": "almanac"
    },
    {
      "term": "altocumulus"
    },
    {
      "term": "altocumulus castellanus"
    },
    {
      "term": "altostratus"
    },
    {
      "term": "American Meteorological Society (AMS)"
    },
    {
      "term": "anabatic wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "anemometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "annular tropical cyclone"
    },
    {
      "term": "anticyclogenesis"
    },
    {
      "term": "anticyclone"
    },
    {
      "term": "anticyclonic rotation"
    },
    {
      "term": "anticyclonic storm"
    },
    {
      "term": "anticyclonic tornado"
    },
    {
      "term": "Arctic cyclone"
    },
    {
      "term": "arcus cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "Atlantic hurricane"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmosphere"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric circulation"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric convection"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric density"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric model"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric pressure"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric river"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric science"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric sounding"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric temperature"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric thermodynamics"
    },
    {
      "term": "atmospheric tide"
    },
    {
      "term": "autumn"
    },
    {
      "term": "avalanche"
    },
    {
      "term": "Aviation Area Forecast (FA or ARFOR)"
    },
    {
      "term": "backscatter"
    },
    {
      "term": "ball lightning"
    },
    {
      "term": "banana belt"
    },
    {
      "term": "barbs"
    },
    {
      "term": "baroclinity"
    },
    {
      "term": "barograph"
    },
    {
      "term": "barometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "barotropity"
    },
    {
      "term": "Beaufort scale"
    },
    {
      "term": "Bernoulli's principle"
    },
    {
      "term": "Bishop's ring"
    },
    {
      "term": "black ice"
    },
    {
      "term": "blizzard"
    },
    {
      "term": "block"
    },
    {
      "term": "blowing dust or sand"
    },
    {
      "term": "blowing snow"
    },
    {
      "term": "bounded weak echo region (BWER)"
    },
    {
      "term": "bow echo"
    },
    {
      "term": "breeze"
    },
    {
      "term": "brightband"
    },
    {
      "term": "Bulk Richardson Number (BRN)"
    },
    {
      "term": "bushfire"
    },
    {
      "term": "Buys Ballot's law"
    },
    {
      "term": "Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)"
    },
    {
      "term": "Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC)"
    },
    {
      "term": "capping inversion"
    },
    {
      "term": "castellanus"
    },
    {
      "term": "ceiling"
    },
    {
      "term": "ceiling balloon"
    },
    {
      "term": "ceiling projector"
    },
    {
      "term": "ceilometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS)"
    },
    {
      "term": "central dense overcast (CDO)"
    },
    {
      "term": "chinook wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "cirrocumulus"
    },
    {
      "term": "cirrostratus"
    },
    {
      "term": "cirrus (Ci)"
    },
    {
      "term": "clear ice"
    },
    {
      "term": "clear-air turbulence"
    },
    {
      "term": "climate"
    },
    {
      "term": "climatology"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud atlas"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud base"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud cover"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud drop effective radius"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud genus"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud iridescence"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud species"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud tag"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud type"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloud variety"
    },
    {
      "term": "cloudburst"
    },
    {
      "term": "col"
    },
    {
      "term": "cold front"
    },
    {
      "term": "cold wave"
    },
    {
      "term": "cold-core low"
    },
    {
      "term": "Colorado low"
    },
    {
      "term": "convection"
    },
    {
      "term": "convective available potential energy (CAPE)"
    },
    {
      "term": "convective condensation level"
    },
    {
      "term": "convective inhibition (CIN)"
    },
    {
      "term": "convective instability"
    },
    {
      "term": "convective outlooks"
    },
    {
      "term": "convective storm detection"
    },
    {
      "term": "convergence"
    },
    {
      "term": "convergence zone"
    },
    {
      "term": "corona"
    },
    {
      "term": "crepuscular rays"
    },
    {
      "term": "crosswind"
    },
    {
      "term": "Crow instability"
    },
    {
      "term": "cumulonimbus"
    },
    {
      "term": "cumulus (Cu)"
    },
    {
      "term": "cumulus congestus"
    },
    {
      "term": "cumulus humilis"
    },
    {
      "term": "cumulus mediocris"
    },
    {
      "term": "cyclogenesis"
    },
    {
      "term": "cyclone"
    },
    {
      "term": "cyclonic rotation"
    },
    {
      "term": "dark adaptor goggles"
    },
    {
      "term": "dawn"
    },
    {
      "term": "daytime"
    },
    {
      "term": "dBZ"
    },
    {
      "term": "debris cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "deformation"
    },
    {
      "term": "dense fog"
    },
    {
      "term": "depression"
    },
    {
      "term": "derecho"
    },
    {
      "term": "dew"
    },
    {
      "term": "dew point"
    },
    {
      "term": "dew point depression"
    },
    {
      "term": "Diablo wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "diamond dust"
    },
    {
      "term": "diffluence"
    },
    {
      "term": "diffuse sky radiation"
    },
    {
      "term": "disdrometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "diurnal temperature variation"
    },
    {
      "term": "Dobson unit (DU)"
    },
    {
      "term": "doldrums"
    },
    {
      "term": "Doppler on Wheels (DOW)"
    },
    {
      "term": "Doppler weather radar"
    },
    {
      "term": "downburst"
    },
    {
      "term": "downdraft"
    },
    {
      "term": "drifting snow"
    },
    {
      "term": "drizzle"
    },
    {
      "term": "drought"
    },
    {
      "term": "dry lightning"
    },
    {
      "term": "dry line"
    },
    {
      "term": "dry microburst"
    },
    {
      "term": "dry punch"
    },
    {
      "term": "dry season"
    },
    {
      "term": "dry thunderstorm"
    },
    {
      "term": "dual polarization weather radar"
    },
    {
      "term": "dusk"
    },
    {
      "term": "dust devil"
    },
    {
      "term": "dust storm"
    },
    {
      "term": "echo"
    },
    {
      "term": "eddy"
    },
    {
      "term": "Ekman layer"
    },
    {
      "term": "Ekman number"
    },
    {
      "term": "Ekman spiral"
    },
    {
      "term": "Ekman transport"
    },
    {
      "term": "El Niño"
    },
    {
      "term": "El Niño Southern Oscillation"
    },
    {
      "term": "emagram"
    },
    {
      "term": "energy-helicity index (EHI)"
    },
    {
      "term": "Enhanced Fujita scale (EF scale)"
    },
    {
      "term": "entrainment"
    },
    {
      "term": "Environment and Climate Change Canada"
    },
    {
      "term": "Environmental Modeling Center (EMC)"
    },
    {
      "term": "Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA)"
    },
    {
      "term": "equivalent potential temperature"
    },
    {
      "term": "equivalent temperature"
    },
    {
      "term": "Eulerian equations"
    },
    {
      "term": "European windstorm"
    },
    {
      "term": "explosive cyclogenesis"
    },
    {
      "term": "extratropical cyclone"
    },
    {
      "term": "extreme weather"
    },
    {
      "term": "eye"
    },
    {
      "term": "eyewall"
    },
    {
      "term": "fall wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "Fata Morgana"
    },
    {
      "term": "fetch"
    },
    {
      "term": "field mill"
    },
    {
      "term": "fire whirl"
    },
    {
      "term": "firestorm"
    },
    {
      "term": "flammagenitus"
    },
    {
      "term": "flash flood"
    },
    {
      "term": "flash freezing"
    },
    {
      "term": "flood"
    },
    {
      "term": "flumen"
    },
    {
      "term": "fog"
    },
    {
      "term": "fogbow"
    },
    {
      "term": "föhn wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "forward-flank downdraft (FFD)"
    },
    {
      "term": "fractus (Fr)"
    },
    {
      "term": "frazil ice"
    },
    {
      "term": "freezing drizzle"
    },
    {
      "term": "freezing fog"
    },
    {
      "term": "freezing rain"
    },
    {
      "term": "freshet"
    },
    {
      "term": "front"
    },
    {
      "term": "frontogenesis"
    },
    {
      "term": "frontolysis"
    },
    {
      "term": "frost"
    },
    {
      "term": "Fujita scale"
    },
    {
      "term": "funnel cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "gale"
    },
    {
      "term": "gale warning"
    },
    {
      "term": "gap wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "geopotential height"
    },
    {
      "term": "geostrophic wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "glaze"
    },
    {
      "term": "GPS meteorology"
    },
    {
      "term": "graupel"
    },
    {
      "term": "grease ice"
    },
    {
      "term": "Great Salt Lake effect"
    },
    {
      "term": "green flash"
    },
    {
      "term": "ground blizzard"
    },
    {
      "term": "ground truth"
    },
    {
      "term": "gust"
    },
    {
      "term": "gust front"
    },
    {
      "term": "gustnado"
    },
    {
      "term": "haboob"
    },
    {
      "term": "hail"
    },
    {
      "term": "hailstorm"
    },
    {
      "term": "Haines Index"
    },
    {
      "term": "halo"
    },
    {
      "term": "hard rime"
    },
    {
      "term": "Harmattan"
    },
    {
      "term": "hazardous seas warning"
    },
    {
      "term": "hazardous seas watch"
    },
    {
      "term": "haze"
    },
    {
      "term": "heat burst"
    },
    {
      "term": "heat index (HI)"
    },
    {
      "term": "heat lightning"
    },
    {
      "term": "heat wave"
    },
    {
      "term": "heavy snow warning"
    },
    {
      "term": "helicity"
    },
    {
      "term": "high-pressure area"
    },
    {
      "term": "hodograph"
    },
    {
      "term": "hook echo"
    },
    {
      "term": "horseshoe vortex"
    },
    {
      "term": "huaico"
    },
    {
      "term": "humidex"
    },
    {
      "term": "humidity"
    },
    {
      "term": "humilis"
    },
    {
      "term": "hurricane"
    },
    {
      "term": "hurricane hunters"
    },
    {
      "term": "hydrometeor"
    },
    {
      "term": "hydrometeorology"
    },
    {
      "term": "hydrosphere"
    },
    {
      "term": "hydrostatic equilibrium"
    },
    {
      "term": "hygrometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "hygroscopy"
    },
    {
      "term": "hypsometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "ice"
    },
    {
      "term": "ice accretion indicator"
    },
    {
      "term": "ice crystals"
    },
    {
      "term": "ice fog"
    },
    {
      "term": "ice pellets"
    },
    {
      "term": "ice spike"
    },
    {
      "term": "ice storm"
    },
    {
      "term": "iceberg"
    },
    {
      "term": "icicle"
    },
    {
      "term": "incus"
    },
    {
      "term": "Indian summer"
    },
    {
      "term": "inflow"
    },
    {
      "term": "instrument flight rules (IFR)"
    },
    {
      "term": "International Standard Atmosphere (ISA)"
    },
    {
      "term": "Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)"
    },
    {
      "term": "irisation"
    },
    {
      "term": "jet stream"
    },
    {
      "term": "K-index"
    },
    {
      "term": "katabatic wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "Kelvin temperature scale"
    },
    {
      "term": "Kelvin–Helmholtz instability"
    },
    {
      "term": "khamsin"
    },
    {
      "term": "kinematics"
    },
    {
      "term": "Köppen climate classification"
    },
    {
      "term": "La Niña"
    },
    {
      "term": "Lagrangian equations"
    },
    {
      "term": "lake-effect snow"
    },
    {
      "term": "land breeze"
    },
    {
      "term": "landfall"
    },
    {
      "term": "landslide"
    },
    {
      "term": "landspout"
    },
    {
      "term": "lapse rate"
    },
    {
      "term": "lee trough"
    },
    {
      "term": "lee wave"
    },
    {
      "term": "Lemon technique"
    },
    {
      "term": "lenticular cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "level of free convection (LFC)"
    },
    {
      "term": "Lidar"
    },
    {
      "term": "lifted condensation level (LCL)"
    },
    {
      "term": "lifted index (LI)"
    },
    {
      "term": "light pillar"
    },
    {
      "term": "lightning"
    },
    {
      "term": "lightning activity level"
    },
    {
      "term": "lightning detection"
    },
    {
      "term": "lightning strike"
    },
    {
      "term": "line echo wave pattern (LEWP)"
    },
    {
      "term": "low-level jet"
    },
    {
      "term": "low-level windshear alert system"
    },
    {
      "term": "low-pressure area (L)"
    },
    {
      "term": "low-topped supercell (LT)"
    },
    {
      "term": "lysimeter"
    },
    {
      "term": "MAFOR"
    },
    {
      "term": "marine cloud brightening"
    },
    {
      "term": "marine stratocumulus"
    },
    {
      "term": "mass flow"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesocyclone"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesohigh"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesolow"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesonet"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesoscale convective complex (MCC)"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesoscale convective discussion (MCD)"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesoscale convective system (MCS)"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesoscale convective vortex (MCV)"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesoscale meteorology"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesosphere"
    },
    {
      "term": "mesovortices"
    },
    {
      "term": "METAR"
    },
    {
      "term": "Météo-France"
    },
    {
      "term": "meteorology"
    },
    {
      "term": "microburst"
    },
    {
      "term": "micronet"
    },
    {
      "term": "microscale meteorology"
    },
    {
      "term": "mini-supercell"
    },
    {
      "term": "mini-tornado"
    },
    {
      "term": "misocyclone"
    },
    {
      "term": "misoscale meteorology"
    },
    {
      "term": "mixing ratio"
    },
    {
      "term": "Modified Fujita Scale"
    },
    {
      "term": "moisture"
    },
    {
      "term": "moisture convergence"
    },
    {
      "term": "monsoon"
    },
    {
      "term": "Morning Glory cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "mountain breeze"
    },
    {
      "term": "mountain-gap wind"
    },
    {
      "term": "mudflow"
    },
    {
      "term": "multicellular thunderstorm"
    },
    {
      "term": "multiple-vortex tornado"
    },
    {
      "term": "murus"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Hurricane Center (NHC)"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC)"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Tornado Database"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Weather Center (NWC)"
    },
    {
      "term": "National Weather Service (NWS)"
    },
    {
      "term": "needle ice"
    },
    {
      "term": "negative tilt"
    },
    {
      "term": "nephelometer"
    },
    {
      "term": "nephoscope"
    },
    {
      "term": "NEXRAD"
    },
    {
      "term": "nimbostratus"
    },
    {
      "term": "noctilucent cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "nor'easter"
    },
    {
      "term": "Nor'west arch"
    },
    {
      "term": "Novaya Zemlya effect"
    },
    {
      "term": "nowcasting"
    },
    {
      "term": "numerical weather prediction"
    },
    {
      "term": "occluded front"
    },
    {
      "term": "ocean current"
    },
    {
      "term": "okta"
    },
    {
      "term": "omega equation"
    },
    {
      "term": "opacity"
    },
    {
      "term": "orographic cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "orographic precipitation"
    },
    {
      "term": "OU-PRIME"
    },
    {
      "term": "outflow"
    },
    {
      "term": "outflow boundary"
    },
    {
      "term": "outflow jet"
    },
    {
      "term": "overcast"
    },
    {
      "term": "overshooting top"
    },
    {
      "term": "ozone depletion"
    },
    {
      "term": "ozone layer"
    },
    {
      "term": "paleoclimatology"
    },
    {
      "term": "pampero"
    },
    {
      "term": "pan evaporation"
    },
    {
      "term": "pancake ice"
    },
    {
      "term": "pannus"
    },
    {
      "term": "parhelia"
    },
    {
      "term": "Particularly Dangerous Situation"
    },
    {
      "term": "pascal (Pa)"
    },
    {
      "term": "Pascal's law"
    },
    {
      "term": "Pearson scale"
    },
    {
      "term": "pedestal cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "permafrost"
    },
    {
      "term": "Phi_DP"
    },
    {
      "term": "photometeor"
    },
    {
      "term": "pileus"
    },
    {
      "term": "pilot balloon"
    },
    {
      "term": "pilot report (PIREP)"
    },
    {
      "term": "polar low"
    },
    {
      "term": "polar mesospheric clouds"
    },
    {
      "term": "polar stratospheric cloud"
    },
    {
      "term": "polar vortex"
    },
    {
      "term": "potential temperature"
    },
    {
      "term": "potential vorticity"
    },
    {
      "term": "power flash"
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    {
      "term": "precipitable water"
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      "term": "precipitation"
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    {
      "term": "pressure gradient"
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    {
      "term": "pressure gradient force (PGF)"
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      "term": "pressure system"
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      "term": "psychrometrics"
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      "term": "pulse storm"
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      "term": "Pulse-Doppler radar"
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      "term": "pyranometer"
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    {
      "term": "pyrgeometer"
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    {
      "term": "pyrheliometer"
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      "term": "Q-vector"
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    {
      "term": "quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE)"
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    {
      "term": "quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF)"
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      "term": "quasi-linear convective system (QLCS)"
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      "term": "radiation fog"
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      "term": "radiosonde"
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      "term": "radius of maximum wind (RMW)"
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      "term": "rain"
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      "term": "rain and snow mixed"
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      "term": "rain gauge"
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      "term": "rain of animals"
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    {
      "term": "raindrop size distribution (DSD)"
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    {
      "term": "Rankine vortex"
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    {
      "term": "rapid intensification"
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    {
      "term": "rear flank downdraft (RFD)"
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      "term": "relative humidity"
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      "term": "remote sensing"
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      "term": "Rho_hv"
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      "term": "ridge"
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      "term": "rime"
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      "term": "rogue wave"
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      "term": "roll cloud"
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    {
      "term": "Rossby number"
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      "term": "Rossby wave"
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      "term": "rotation"
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    {
      "term": "Saffir–Simpson scale"
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      "term": "sandstorm"
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    {
      "term": "sastrugi"
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      "term": "satellite tornado"
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    {
      "term": "scud"
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    {
      "term": "sea breeze"
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    {
      "term": "sea spray"
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    {
      "term": "sea state"
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    {
      "term": "season"
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      "term": "severe thunderstorm"
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    {
      "term": "severe weather"
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      "term": "shelf cloud"
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      "term": "shortwave trough"
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    {
      "term": "SIGMET"
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    {
      "term": "simoom"
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    {
      "term": "single cell thunderstorm"
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      "term": "sirocco"
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      "term": "skew-T log-P diagram"
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    {
      "term": "skipping tornado"
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    {
      "term": "Skywarn"
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    {
      "term": "sleet"
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    {
      "term": "slush"
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      "term": "snow"
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    {
      "term": "snow gauge"
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      "term": "snow grains"
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      "term": "snow roller"
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      "term": "Snowbelt"
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      "term": "snowdrift"
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      "term": "snowflake"
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      "term": "snowsquall"
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      "term": "snowstorm"
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    {
      "term": "SODAR"
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    {
      "term": "solar irradiance"
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      "term": "solarimeter"
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    {
      "term": "sounding"
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      "term": "sounding rocket"
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      "term": "specific humidity"
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      "term": "spindrift"
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      "term": "spring"
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    {
      "term": "sprite"
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      "term": "squall"
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      "term": "squall line"
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      "term": "St. Elmo's fire"
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      "term": "station model"
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      "term": "stationary front"
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      "term": "steam devil"
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      "term": "Stevenson screen"
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      "term": "storm"
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      "term": "storm cell"
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      "term": "storm chasing"
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      "term": "Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena (SD)"
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      "term": "Storm Prediction Center (SPC)"
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      "term": "storm shelter"
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      "term": "storm spotting"
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      "term": "storm surge"
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      "term": "trowal"
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      "term": "tsunami"
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      "term": "twilight"
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      "term": "typhoon"
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    {
      "term": "University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)"
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      "term": "unstable air mass"
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      "term": "updraft"
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      "term": "upper-air chart"
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      "term": "upper-air sounding"
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      "term": "upper-level low"
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      "term": "upslope fog"
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    {
      "term": "US Standard Atmosphere"
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      "term": "valley breeze"
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      "term": "valley exit jet"
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      "term": "vertical draft"
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      "term": "vertical wind shear"
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    {
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      "term": "virga"
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      "term": "virtual temperature"
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      "term": "visibility"
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    {
      "term": "visual flight rules (VFR)"
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      "term": "Von Kármán constant"
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      "term": "Von Kármán wind turbulence model"
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      "term": "vortex"
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      "term": "vorticity"
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      "term": "wall cloud"
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    {
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      "term": "weather satellite"
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      "term": "weather station"
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    {
      "term": "Weather Surveillance Radar (WSR)"
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      "term": "willy-willy"
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