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Beaufort scale
- Sinônimos - Inglês
- Beaufort wind scale
- Definição1
- A system of estimating and reporting wind speeds using a numerical scale ranging from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane).
- 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
- Wind force scale, originally based on the state of the sea, expressed in numbers from 0 to 12.
- Fonte2
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. International Meteorological vocabulary. 2nd ed. Geneva, 1992. (WMO, n.182). Disponível em: < https://library.wmo.int/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=220#.XeauGOhKiUk >. Acesso em: 21 set. 2021.
- Fonte3
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. Manual on codes: international codes: volume I.1: annex II to the WMO technical regulations: parte A: annex II to the WMO technical regulations. Geneva, 2017. (WMO, n.306).
- Fonte4
- 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.
- Nota Adicional1
- In its present form for international meteorological use it equates 1) Beaufort force (or Beaufort number), 2) wind speed, 3) descriptive term, and 4) visible effects upon land objects or sea surface. One land adaptation is the NRM wind scale.
- Contexto
- In the absence of wind instruments, the wind speed shall be estimated on the basis of the Beaufort wind scale.
- Subárea
- Meteorology
- Français
- échelle de Beaufort