| Term | Definition | Contributor | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|
| local scale | No definition provided | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| local storm | A storm of mesometeorological scale; thus, thunderstorms, squalls, and tornadoes are often put in this category. | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| LocalSystem | No definition provided | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| local thermodynamic equilibrium | No definition provided | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| local time | No definition provided | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| local wind | 1. Winds that, over a small area, differ from those that would be appropriate to the general large-scale pressure distribution, or that possess some other peculiarity. Often these winds have names uni que to the area where they occur. Local winds may be classified into three main groups. The first includes diurnally varying airflows that are driven by local gradients of surface heat flux (e.g., near the shore of a sea or lake) or by diurnal heating or cooling of the ground surface in areas of sloping or mountainous terrain. These include land and sea breezes, mountain?valley circulations, and drainage and slope winds. The second group consists of winds produced by the interaction of a synoptic-scale flow with orography. These may be further subdivided into barrier jets, gap winds, downslope windstorms, and include such local phenomena as the tehuantepecer, Santa Ana, foehn, mistral, and bora. The third group includes those winds accompanying convective activity, more specifically individual thunderstorms or mesoscale convective systems. These are generally the surface manifestations of precipitation- cooled diverging outflow and in some locations are given special names due to the distinctive character of the weather associated with them (e.g., the haboob). 2. Local or colloquial names given to frequently occurring or particularly noteworthy winds (sometimes because of the bad weather associated with them), usually from a certain direction. Often these names reflect the direction from which the wind comes (e.g., sou'wester, nor'easter). | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| location | No definition provided | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| Location | A position in space definable by a regional referencing system and geographic coordinates | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| Location | A position in space definable by a regional referencing system and geographic coordinates | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| Location | A position in space definable by a regionalreferencing system and geographic coordinates. | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| location allocation | Spatial allocation is primarily concerned with designating what kinds of activities can or will be done where on the landscape. Land-use zoning is a typical example of a spatial allocation problem in which the landscape is divided up into a set of multiple alternative uses such as industrial, commercial, residential, etc. Allocation to a particular use usually depends on intrinsic properties of the individual parcels as well as adjacency constraints. | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| location based service | No definition provided | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| Loch Earn (Ship) | No definition provided | Christopher Rauch | 2023.12.01 |
| lochkovian | No definition provided | Ryan McGranaghan | 2023.04.16 |
| Locking up (Typography) | No definition provided | Christopher Rauch | 2023.12.01 |
| Lockjaw | No definition provided | Christopher Rauch | 2023.12.01 |
| Lockouts | No definition provided | Christopher Rauch | 2023.12.01 |
| Locks and keys | No definition provided | Christopher Rauch | 2023.12.01 |
| Locks (Canal) | No definition provided | Christopher Rauch | 2023.12.01 |
| Locomotion | No definition provided | Christopher Rauch | 2023.12.01 |