What's the difference between meteorologist and synoptic?

Meteorologist


Definition:

  • (n.) A person skilled in meteorology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why, for example, would a meteorologist fail to correctly predict where a hurricane was going to make landfall, or why might a doctor fail to figure out what was going on inside my son and fix it?
  • (2) Your even more underwhelming UK holiday photos Read more Greg Dewhurst, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said Britain would start to feel the burn on Monday, with temperatures peaking on Wednesday in the high 20s and almost breaking 30C in some places.
  • (3) But, not for the first time, a BBC meteorologist had got the forecast wrong.
  • (4) One meteorologist, Ryan Maue of Weather Bell, called the system of cold air approaching the midwest a “polar vortex”.
  • (5) The hot, dry spring of 2011 has also been linked to melting sea ice by meteorologists .
  • (6) It was forecast to dump icy drizzle and eventually freezing rain through the New York City area and into Boston, National Weather Service meteorologist Greg Heavener said.
  • (7) The lead author of the report, Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the Associated Press he had tried to create computer simulations of the the drought, factoring in climate change conditions.
  • (8) Martin Babakhan, a meteorologist and conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle, told me earlier that he believed the objects would likely have moved “around 200 or 300 kilometres” from the location first identified in the 16 March satellite images: I was looking at that ocean all week and that particular region has a very very strong current and the weather is variable very quickly.
  • (9) "There is a two-thirds probability that this year will be better, but there is also a one-third probability that it will not be," said Ewen McCallum, chief meteorologist at the Met Office.
  • (10) Martin Babakhan, a meteorologist and lecturer at Australia’s University of Newcastle, said that since the satellite images were taken the objects found could have moved “about 200 or 300 kilometres from the original location” in a westerly direction, closer to Australia.
  • (11) Meteorologists believe the floods are caused by a natural weather cycle known as La Niña and the Southern Oscillation mechanism, which has been linked to recent flooding in Australia and the Philippines.
  • (12) Krista Mitchell, a Met Office meteorologist, said: "Things are certainly heating up today and again tomorrow.
  • (13) But the thickest haze recorded by the city state in over 30 years is expected to return periodically until steady rains come in September, said meteorologists.
  • (14) A new temperature record of 38C was set in the capital last Thursday and meteorologists expect it will be surpassed this week as the heatwave continues.
  • (15) Last summer, leading meteorologists warned that the country can expect longer, more intense and more frequent weather events in the future.
  • (16) There’s still a distinct possibility that his could make landfall somewhere in the US,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and hurricane center spokesman.
  • (17) Flooding is going to be a major issue for the Cape and New England,” said Bernadette Woods Placky, a meteorologist at Climate Central.
  • (18) The bitter blast will lead to a swath of sub-zero temperatures, with highs in the single digits and wind chills of -20F or colder, said Paul Collar, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
  • (19) The jovial NBC Today Show anchor is one of eight local and national meteorologists the Obama administration invited to the White House for one-on-one interviews with the president.
  • (20) In Cox’s Bazar, meteorologists confirmed the fishermen’s observations.

Synoptic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Synoptical
  • (n.) One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, it has become clear from our results that bile duct injury must not be considered to be an absolute histopathologic marker of acute rejection; however, it does have to be judged synoptically in connection with the other components of the diagnostic triad and the changes that the triad cause in the hepatic parenchyma.
  • (2) Output of power spectra, bicoherence and biphases is produced in synoptic form on a line printer.
  • (3) The pattern of the blood vessels (except the pulmonary veins) and their opening into the heart is presented synoptically.
  • (4) We attempt to interpret results of electrophysiologic testing synoptically with subjective complaints and clinical observations.
  • (5) The classification thus seeks to offer a compromise between the protist and protoctist kingdoms of Whittaker and Margulis and to combine a full listing of phyla with grouping of these for synoptic treatment.
  • (6) The equipment involved, the operational complexity, and the accuracy of the results and their interpretation are listed in a synoptic table.
  • (7) The interpretation of results was influenced by the biological end point used as the synoptic measurement.
  • (8) In disorders such as pulmonary thromboembolism, however, the correct interpretation can only be made with the help of a broad synoptic basis, formed by the treating physician, the X-ray, and the nuclear medicine specialist.
  • (9) This paper furnishes a synoptic overview of the anatomic pathology of trophoblastic growths, with some reference to clinical implications.
  • (10) Results have been grouped in a number of synoptic tables, Bacteria that would not admit of the method of preservation described, have not been found thus far.
  • (11) A synoptic table shows the distribution of the most important risk factors of the three investigated female cancers in the Ragusa population, reported in the present and in an accompanying paper.
  • (12) ERG results should be evaluated synoptically with psychophysical data, ophthalmoscopy, fluoresceinangiography and possibly with EOG and VER recordings.
  • (13) Although lichen planus (LP) is still considered a disease of unknown origin, we succeeded in developing a synoptic pathogenetic concept based on the various scientific studies in this field, which may supply a rational foundation for the empirically established therapy.
  • (14) Hours of EEG activity are compressed into a pictorial and synoptic representation that shows in real time the distribution and temporal behaviour of frequencies as well as the intensity of total electrical activity.
  • (15) Our problem-oriented record comprises the following parts: a) Patient-machine communication for anamnesis b) Computer-oriented medical record c) Automated synoptic presentation of problem epicrisis d) Centralized data-pool.
  • (16) The major difference between this approach and the more common heuristic or synoptic interpretation of "images" lies in the underlying modeling: the model "predicts" a minimal washout rate, a match between ventilation and perfusion rates in the lungs, homogeneous contraction in the left ventricle, an expected angular distribution of thallium in the myocardium, or the absence of an additional kinetic feature.
  • (17) Starting from a synoptic reduced representation of the data and selecting sequences for the building of histograms of averaged energy levels in limited frequency bands, the authors describe the progressive spread of a dominant alpha band all over the scalp during autogenic training.
  • (18) New synoptic diagrams of canine renal organization are presented.
  • (19) The notions which are used for the characterization of radiation within the optical region of the spectrum (quantities, units) and their temporal and geometric relations have been arranged synoptically.
  • (20) A synoptic table is presented of 19 reported cases of infection caused by A. actinomycetemcomitans not connected with actinomycosis, with particular regard to their clinical features, treatment, and outcome.

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