Glossary

This glossary of meteorological terms, in English and Russian, was prepared for the Atlas by Nina A. Zaitseva.

Contact information:

Nina A. Zaitseva, Ph.D.
Secretary for Science
Division of Oceanology, Atmospheric Physics and Geography
Russian Academy of Sciences
Tel: 7-095-938-5199
Fax: 7-095-938-1859
E-mail: nina@orm.mipt.ru

Primary sources used:

Huschke, Ralph E., ed. Glossary of Meteorology. Boston: American Meteorological Society, 1959.

Khromov, S.P. and L.A. Mamontova, Glossary of Meteorology [in Russian] Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1974.

World Meteorological Organization. International Meteorological Vocabulary. Geneva: World Meteorological Organization, 1992.