The Practice of Weather Forecasting |
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Meteorological analysis | 14 |
Analysis of surface wind and pressure | 26 |
Analysis of surface temperature and dewpoint | 33 |
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0600 GMT chart actual wind adiabatic lapse rate advection air temperature anticyclone ascent Atlantic atmosphere British Isles Camborne Cloud and weather cloud types cold air cold front continuity chart convection Crawley degC depression detailed Dry-bulb temperature forecast chart Forecast positions forecaster's frontal cloud frontal zone geostrophic geostrophic wind HIGH humidity inversion isallobars isobars isotachs isotherms January jet stream June layer long-range forecasting low cloud meteorological millibars moist movement moving normal occur particular patterns plotted possible potential temperature pressure changes pressure gradient pressure tendency radiosonde rain regions reported satellite sea temperature showers shows significant station surface front surface temperature Surface winds symbols synoptic technique temperature and dew-point Temperature sounding tephigram thermal winds thickness lines thunderstorms tropopause tropopause level troposphere trough typical upper air charts upper winds values vertical warm front WBPT weather analysis weather forecasting wind speed