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290: 46:. These include small and generally fleeting cloud "puffs" and other small cloud features. Microscale meteorology controls the most important mixing and dilution processes in the atmosphere. Important topics in microscale meteorology include 163: 58:. Measuring these transport processes involves use of micrometeorological (or flux) towers. Variables often measured or derived include net 331: 271: 38:
are sometimes grouped together as "mesoscale and microscale meteorology" (MMM) and together study all phenomena smaller than
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between soil, vegetation, and/or surface water and the atmosphere caused by near-ground
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Index

atmospheric
mesoscale
meteorology
synoptic scale
weather map
heat transfer
gas exchange
turbulence
radiation
sensible heat
latent heat flux
trace gases
atmosphere
biosphere
hydrosphere
environmental
automated
weather stations
mesonet
Eddy covariance
FLUXNET
Microscale and macroscale models
Misoscale meteorology
Spatial scale
Surface weather analysis
Wind engineering
"AMS Glossary of Meteorology"
American Meteorological Society
the original
Foken 2017

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