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ice pellet
- Definição1
- Small, transparent or translucent, round or irregularly shaped pellets of ice. Ice pellets may be hard grains that rebound on striking a hard surface or may be pellets of snow encased in ice.
- Fonte1
- CRANE, Dale (ed.). Dictionary of aeronautical terms. 2nd ed. Renton: ASA, 1991.
- Definição2
- Precipitation of transparent or translucent ice particles of small size (less than 5 mm diameter).
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. Manual of runway visual range observing and reporting practices. 3. ed. Montreal, 2005. (Doc. 9328)
- Fonte3
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. Guide to meteorological instruments and methods of observation. Geneva, 2012. (WMO, n.8).
- Fonte4
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION. Manual on codes: international codes: volume I.2: annex II to the WMO technical regulations: parte B: binary codes. parte C: common features to binary and alphanumeric codes. Geneva, 2015. (WMO, n.306).
- Nota adicional1
- Acronym in English: PL and IP
- Contexto
- For the purposes of depth measurements, the term “snow” should also include ice pellets, glaze, hail, and sheet ice formed directly or indirectly from precipitation.
- The descriptor TS shall be used only in combination with one or more of the letter abbreviations RA,SN, PL, GS and GR, to indicate thunderstorm with precipitation at the aerodrome, for example TSSNGS.
- Subárea1
- Meteorology
- Português
- pelota de gelo