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prevailing wind
Sinônimos
prevailing wind direction
Definição1
Wind direction, at a specific place, which has a clearly higher frequency of occurrence than that of any other wind direction.
Fonte1
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: 27 set. 2022.
Fonte2
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Wind shear. Montreal, 1987. (Cir. 186 AN/122).
Fonte3
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. Glossary of meteorology. [S.l., última modificação 05 oct. 2015]. Disponível em: < http://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Main_Page >. Acesso em: 22. set. 2022.
Nota adicional1
The periods most frequently used are the observational day, month, season, and year. Methods for determination vary from a simple count of periodic observations to the computation of a wind rose.
Contexto
Short-term fluctuations of the wind about a mean direction and/or speed are normally referred to as "variations" from the prevailing wind.
Subárea1
Aeronautical Meteorology
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