meteorological phenomenon

collocation in English

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meteorological
adjective
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/ˌmiː.ti.ə.rəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌmiː.t̬i.ɚ.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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phenomenon
noun[C]
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/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/us
/fəˈnɑː.mə.nɑːn/
something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual ...
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(Definition ofmeteorologicalandphenomenonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In the first place, we are faced with ameteorologicalphenomenonof comparatively rare occurrence.
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The storm also generated a raremeteorologicalphenomenonknown as thundersnow in which thunder and lightning occur concurrently with the falling snow.
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The main cause of the accident was a microburst, a particularly dangerous and unpredictablemeteorologicalphenomenon.
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Fujita was also the first to widely study themeteorologicalphenomenonof the downburst, which can pose serious danger to aircraft.
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Noctilucent clouds are not fully understood and are a recently discoveredmeteorologicalphenomenon; there is no record of their observation before 1885.
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The term is also used to describe themeteorologicalphenomenonassociated.
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Forecasting of meteorological phenomena has seen rapid improvement in the past decades.
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Storms can be metaphors for the state of mind of the characters on stage as well as meteorological phenomena.
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It is not considered that meteorological phenomena were responsible and investigations continue.
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To forecast efficiently, one needs good current recording of a very wide range of meteorological phenomena.
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Scientists have pointed out the risks inherent in our inconsiderate treatment of the planet, one of the results of which is extreme meteorological phenomena.
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It has now been demonstrated that compliance with daily limit values is completely unrelated to any clean air measures, but rather largely dependent on chance meteorological phenomena.
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The user can extract information on the dynamics of the meteorological phenomena, including the ability to extrapolate the motion and observe development or dissipation.
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This allows regional models to resolve explicitly smaller-scale meteorological phenomena that can not be represented on the coarser grid of a global model.
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Most exploit meteorological phenomena to maintain or even gain height.
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Meteorological phenomena are observable weather events which illuminate, and are explained by the science of meteorology.
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Geophysical hazards encompass geological and meteorological phenomena such as earthquakes, coastal erosion, volcanic eruption, cyclonic storms, and drought.
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In it, they used hydrodynamics and thermodynamics to describe and explain meteorological phenomena.
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Weather fronts separate two masses of air of different densities and are associated with the most prominent meteorological phenomena.
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There are frequent references to weather conditions, meteorological phenomena and forecasts that add to the foreboding in the plot.
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