- Industry: Weather
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The American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, AMS has a membership of more than 14,000 professionals, ...
A boundary on a phase diagram that expresses the partitioning of a compound between solid and aqueous phases. It is the isothermal equilibrium relationship between the concentration of a compound sorbed to the solid phase and the concentration of the same compound in the aqueous solution in contact with the solid phase.
Industry:Weather
A type of seismic profiling of the subbottom layers of the ocean floor by acoustic waves that reflect off the interfaces of the bottom layers.
Industry:Weather
The relative reflectivity of a specific material, that is, the tendency to deflect sound energy in a specific medium rather than absorb it.
Industry:Weather
The change in the direction of sound as it travels through a medium due to differences in physical and chemical characteristics of the medium.
Industry:Weather
A condition of an acoustic system, such as a Helmholtz resonator, in which the response of the system to sound waves becomes very large when the frequency of the sound approaches a natural vibration frequency of the air (or other material) in the system.
Industry:Weather
The prolongation of sound after the original source has stopped vibrating in an enclosed space.
Industry:Weather
The irregular reflection, refraction, and diffraction of sound in many directions.
Industry:Weather
Irregular fluctuations in the received intensity of sounds propagated through the atmosphere (or ocean) from a source of uniform output; produced by the nonhomogeneous structure of the atmosphere (or ocean) along the path of wave propagation.
Industry:Weather
The characteristic pattern or profile of an object, such as a specific feature of the ocean floor, as detected by identification equipment that uses sound or ultrasonic waves.
Industry:Weather
