(n.) The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Betts, a climate expert at the Meteorological Office and one of about 130 senior authors of Friday's report, said: "This is the culmination of three years' work.
(2) Tun Lwin, the retired director general of Myanmar's meteorology department told the Associated Press: "We are out of danger and the impact of the cyclone is almost over.
(3) That’s about 4-5C hotter than normal for April, according to state meteorological official YK Reddy.
(4) Minimal larval translation occurred during summer when meteorological conditions limited pasture infectivity as effectively as anthelmintic treatments.
(5) Simple regression analysis of Yi with the comparative meteorological value (Xi) was determined from mean temperatures (Ti, j-1), rainfalls (Ri, j-1) for 10-day-periods each, and the number of days showing 25 degrees C or above (ti, j-1) from June to September, which yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.8147 (p less than 0.05) and an equation for estimated HI antibody positivity rate: Yi = -0.04Xi+79.9 (p less than 0.05).
(6) An analysis showed that frosty weather, the existence and direction of a wind, atmospheric-electrical processes preceding the passage of meteorological fronts influenced the nature of proliferative responses.
(7) It appeared that the introduction did not achieve the problem because of the special geografical, meteorological and economical data of the researched part of the Alps which at that time has about 30 000 km2.
(8) There appears to be ample evidence to conclude that various meteorological factors do exert a significant impact on some people with various rheumatic diseases.
(9) It is shown that yearly averages of mixing heights can be calculated from air pollutant concentration data without reference to meteorological observations.
(10) The monthly as well as yearly climatic values of the years 1982-1985 were employed for the following stations: Frankfurt Airport; Wiesbaden South; Freiburg Meteorological Office; Munich Airport Riem which are representative for our areas under examination.
(11) A public health survey identified a combination of waterfowl wastes and meteorological events as the explanation for the high bacteria counts.
(12) By comparing the frequency of bleeding in hemophiliacs with meteorological phenomena, and by the one year material revision of the Hematology Department of the Institute for Child Care in Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) as well as the simultaneous recording of barometric pressure, it was found that the increase of atmospheric pressure was strongly associated with spontaneous bleedings in hemophiliacs.
(13) In a retrospective study over 7 years, data from patients admitted to the Emergency Department with CO intoxication, together with meteorological data were analysed.
(14) The region acts like a giant refrigerator that has a strong effect on the northern hemisphere's meteorology.
(15) Satellite and meteorology experts have already expressed doubts about the prospect of finding the objects in the Indian Ocean believed to be linked to the missing flight, flagging the possibility that the debris could have drifted hundreds of miles since it was first detected due to strong currents.
(16) Seasonal differences, site location (exposed versus protected), and varied interactions among environmental factors contributed to the inconsistent relationships among meteorological variables and black fly host-seeking activity.
(17) Changes in the urban environment had their impact on air quality in the city, but, as found elsewhere, once reductions in pollution have been achieved it is meteorological factors which influence concentrations from year to year.
(18) John Thornes, professor emeritus of applied meteorology at the University of Birmingham, remembers these rain experiments of the 1960s.
(19) Brahma Prakash Yadav, director of the Indian meteorological department, said though maximum temperatures would remain high until the weekend, rain would bring some relief early next week (PDF) .
(20) The investigations were based on a combination of emissions studies, measurements of immissions by continous working SO2 monitoring instruments, lead dioxide candles and Bergerhoff-instruments, and--if possible--meteorological investigations.
Oceanography
Definition:
(n.) A description of the ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amazon reef map Its discovery came as a complete surprise, says co-author Patricia Yager, a professor of oceanography and climate change at the University of Georgia.
(2) At one level they look quite reasonable, for example in suggesting a merger between BAS and the National Oceanography Centre based in Southampton and Liverpool.
(3) David Zee, oceanography professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, says the same pattern was evident at other sites that were supposed to have been improved in time for the Games.
(4) The programme has been heavily criticised for distorting scientific data to fit the sceptic argument and Carl Wunsch, a professor of physical oceanography at MIT who featured in the programme, later said that he was "totally misled" by the film makers and that his comments were "completely misrepresented".
(5) Five hundred miles away in India, on the other side of the Bay of Bengal, researchers in the oceanography department at the University of Jadavpur in Kolkata say dozens of islands in the Indian Sunderban region are being regularly flooded, threatening thousands.
(6) Professor of Deep-Sea Biology and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Southampton National Oceanography Centre.
(7) "We detect an insatiable demand for information about the oceans," said Ed Hill, the director of the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton University .
(8) • Tim Barnett, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US, to Gabi Hegerl, Duke University, US, 18 May 2007 (email 850) This is during a discussion about information a group of scientists wants to request from climate modellers to improve their understanding of the models – and presumably improve the models themselves.
(9) "If you want to understand climate, we should invest more in making observations of climate change, and as the Arctic ocean is the amplifier of global warming, we should concentrate on the Arctic region to understand how fast the warming is taking place," says Wieslaw Maslowski, a research associate professor in oceanography at the US Naval Postgraduate School and science adviser to the Catlin survey.
(10) Google Earth has collected huge amounts of data from reliable sources such as the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and the US Navy.
(11) "We had a computer lab, we had oceanography, we had anatomy, we had physics, that's where it started."
(12) Photograph: credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Drought and erratic rainfall caused less carbon to be stored by parched forests and drylands, on top of the effect of fossil fuel emissions, Noaa said.
(13) The oil spill modelling was conducted by an oceanographer, Laurent Lebreton, and was peer-reviewed by Matthias Tomczak, emeritus professor of oceanography at Flinders University.
(14) Two CO2 monitoring stations high on the Hawaiian volcano of Mauna Loa are run by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and provide the global benchmark measurement.
(15) The past decade has seen the development of small submersibles as a new and effective tool of geology, acoustics, marine biology, and physical oceanography.
(16) On 11 October, two French oceanography students, their faces wind-beaten and sun-scorched, arrived in Istanbul after a 14-month journey from Gibraltar.
(17) The enlargement of the canal will increase the number of invasions from the Red Sea resulting in a diverse range of harmful effects on the ecosystem structure and functioning of the whole Mediterranean sea, with implications to services it provides for humans,” Bella Galil , a marine biologist at Israel’s National Institute of Oceanography, told the Guardian.
(18) "This is the part that's really exciting, for me: people will understand that we know almost nothing about a lot of these places, and Google will do it for us," said David Sandwell, professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, at the University of California, San Diego.
(19) If the current remains as weak as it is, temperatures in Britain are likely to drop by an average of 1C in the next decade, according to Harry Bryden at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton who led the study.
(20) While scientists like José Iglesias Estévez from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography refer to octopus “an ideal mass-produced food”, farming octopus and their close relatives would be a big mistake.