This glossary of meteorology is a list of terms and concepts relevant to meteorology and atmospheric science, their sub-disciplines, and related fields.
Also actiniform.
Also adiabatic warming.
Also barometric pressure.
Sometimes called aerology.
Also simply called an area forecast.
Also baroclinicity.
Also barotropicity.
Also clear ice.
Also blocking high and blocking anticyclone.
Also standing cloud.
Also castellatus.
Also pilot balloonorpibal.
Also climate science.
Also irisation.
Also cloud genus.
Also saddle point and neutral point.
Also cold spell and cold snap.
Also vortex Crow instability.
Also red adaptation goggles.
Also daybreak.
Also dewpointordew-point.
Also non-adiabatic process.
Also simply diffuse radiation.
Also diurnal range.
Also drouth.
Also heat storm.
Also dusterorduststorm.
Also atmometer.
Also fetch length.
Also fire devil and fire tornado.
Also pyrocumulus and fire cloud.
Also beaver's tail.
Also white rainbow, mist bow, and cloud bow.
Also foehn wind.
Also front-flank downdraft.
Often used interchangeably with scud.
Also simply called the F scale.
Also glazed frost.
Also soft hail and snow pellets.
Also gust front tornado.
Also tropical cell.
Also Lower Atmosphere Severity Index.
Also apparent temperature, felt air temperature, and humiture.
Also velocity diagram.
Also huayco.
Also the doldrumsorthe calms.
Also simply jet.
Also jet stream coreorjet maximum.
Also George's index.
Also catabatic wind, drainage wind, or fall wind.
Also chamsin, hamsin, and khamaseen.
Also lee depression, orographic depression, and dynamic trough.
Also rendered as LIDAR, LiDAR, or LADAR.
Also maritime climate.
Also moisture contentorwater content.
Also mudslide.
Also mother-of-pearl cloud.
Also northeaster.
Also Canterbury arch; associated with nor'wester.
Also octa.
Also orographic uplift.
Also gust front.
Also the ozone shield and ozonosphere.
Also scud; often used interchangeably with fractus.
Also sun dogormock sun.
Also Pascal's principle.
Also Fujita-Pearson scaleorF-P-P scale.
Also cap cloudorscarf cloud.
Also polar anticyclone.
Also polar-air depression.
Also total precipitable water (TPW).
Also psychrometry and hygrometry.
Also solarimeter.
Also stratospheric oscillation.
Also geostrophic approximation and pseudogeostrophic approximation.
Also radio-sounding device.
Also wet season and green season.
Also udometer, pluviometer, and ombrometer.
Often simply showers.
Also retrograde motion.
Also wedge.
Also long waveorplanetary wave.
Also simply called the Saffir–Simpson scale.
(sing.) sastruga; also spelled zastrugi
Also moist adiabat.
Also moist adiabatic lapse rate.
Also ocean surface temperature.
Also arcus cloud.
Sometimes stylized as SKYWARN.
Also snow baleorsnow donut.
Often used interchangeably with winter storm.
Also rocketsonde, research rocket, and suborbital rocket.
Also spoondrift.
Also simply Storm Data.
Also plough wind, thundergust, and hurricane of the prairie.
Also cauda.
Also thermal column.
Also electrical storm and lightning storm.
Also twister, whirlwind, and cyclone.
Also debris cloudordebris ball.
Also extended tornado outbreak.
Variously hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, or simply cyclone.
Also vertical draft.
(pl.) vorticesorvortexes
Also murus and pedestal cloud.
Also sounding balloon.
Also wind vane and weathercock.
Also wind chill index and wind chill factor.
Sometimes used interchangeably with wind gradient.
Often used interchangeably with snowstorm.
Also snowspout.
Also spelled dzud.