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Flash Flood |
a sudden local flood, typically due to heavy rain. |
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Pressure Gradient |
sea physical quantity that describes which direction, and at what rate the pressure changes most rapidly around particular location |
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Riverine Flood |
rise of a river to an elevation such that the river outflows it natural banks |
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Cold Front |
boundary of advancing mass of cold air trailing the warm sector of a low pressure system |
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Pressure System |
region where air pressure is at peak or lull in the sea level pressure distribution |
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Storm Surge |
a rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes, and wind associated with storm |
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Drought |
a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water |
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Tropic |
region between parallel of the Earth's latitude of 23.5 degrees North, and 23.5 degrees South of the Equator |
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Temperate |
a region or climate characterized by mild temperatures |
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Coriolis Effect |
a force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and the axis of rotation; right in the Northern Hemisphere, and left in the Southern Hemisphere |
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Rotating Storm |
a thunderstorm with a rotating draft |
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Cyclone |
a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure; counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere |
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Vortex |
a mass of whirling fluid or air |
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Tornado |
a destructive vortex of violently rotating winds with a funnel shaped cloud |
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Fujita Scale |
a scale of tornado severity ranging 0-6 based on the degree of observed damage |
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Dust Storm |
a strong, turbulent wind that carries clouds of fine dust, soil, and sand |
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Hail |
pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds |
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Converge |
to come from different directions, and meet |
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Cumulonimbus Clouds |
extremely dense, vertically developed cloud with a low, dark base, and fluffy masses that tower to great heights |
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Ash Cloud |
gas, steam, ash, dust, and coarser fragments that form during an explosive volcanic eruption |
