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synoptic scale
Definição1
Used with respect to weather systems ranging in size from several hundred kilometers to several thousand kilometers, the scale of migratory high and low pressure systems (frontal cyclones) of the lower troposphere.
Fonte1
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. Glossary of meteorology. [S.l., última modificação 05 oct. 2015]. Disponível em: < http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Main_Page >. Acesso em: 21 set. 2021.
Definição2
The spatial scale of the migratory high and low pressure systems of the lower troposphere, with wavelengths of 1000 to 2500 km.
Fonte2
UNITED STATES. National Weather Service. National weather service glossary. [20-?]. In: ______. [Homepage]. [Silver Spring, MD, 20-?]. Disponível em: < https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php >. Acesso em: 22 set. 2021.
Fonte3
KELKAR, R.R. Satellite Meteorology. CRC Press, 2017. 301 p. ISBN 9781138060661.
Contexto
Operational global weather analysis and forecasting has conventionally been done on the synoptic scale.
Subárea
Aeronautical Meteorology
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