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Section A A index 918 terms Page 1 A/D converter — aberwind Page 2 ABI — Abrolhos squalls Page 3 abscissa — absolute instability Page 4 absolute instrument — absolute refractive index Page 5 absolute stability — absorbed solar radiation Page 6 absorptance — absorption Page 7 absorptivity — accessory cloud Page 8 acclimation — accumulation zone Page 9 accumulation — acicular ice Page 10 acid deposition — acid snow Page 11 acidity of water — acoustic imaging Page 12 acoustic impedance — acoustic refraction Page 13 acoustic resonance — acoustic transponder Page 14 acoustic velocimeter — actinograph Page 15 actinometer — active network Page 16 active nitrogen — actual pressure Page 17 actual time of observation — adfreezing Page 18 adhesion efficiency — adiabatic diagram Page 19 adiabatic equilibrium — adiabatic temperature gradient Page 20 adiabatic trial — admissible concentration limit Page 21 adret — advection frost Page 22 advection — advisory forecast Page 23 advisory — aerobiology Page 24 aerodrome elevation — aerodynamically rough surface Page 25 aerodynamically smooth surface — aerological station Page 26 aerological table — aerosol size distribution Page 27 aerosol — afterheat Page 28 afternoon effect — agnostic chart Page 29 agonic line — agrometeorological station Page 30 agrometeorology — air–earth current Page 31 air freezing index — air pocket Page 32 air poise — air report Page 33 air resistance — airborne expendable bathythermograph Page 34 airborne fraction — aircraft observation Page 35 aircraft report — airglow Page 36 airlight formula — airmass thunderstorm Page 37 airplane observation — airways observation Page 38 airways shelter — Alberta clipper Page 39 Alberta low — algorithm Page 40 aliasing — alkynes Page 41 All-hallown summer — alluvial Page 42 almanac — alpenglow Page 43 alpha particle — alti-electrograph Page 44 altigraph — altocumulus castellanus Page 45 altocumulus duplicatus — altocumulus translucidus Page 46 altocumulus undulatus — ambient air Page 47 ambient pressure — amorphous clouds Page 48 amorphous frost — amplitude Page 49 AMSU — anallobaric center Page 50 anallobaric — analyzed chart Page 51 analyzed map — anemoscope Page 52 anemovane — angle of elevation Page 53 angle of incidence — angstrom Page 54 angular drift — angular wavenumber Page 55 angularity correction — annual maximum series Page 56 annual minimum series — anomaly correlation Page 57 anomaly of geopotential difference — antarctic convergence Page 58 antarctic divergence — antarctic stratospheric vortex Page 59 Antarctic Surface Water — antenna temperature Page 60 antenna — anti-mountain wind Page 61 anti-sea breeze — anticyclonic circulation Page 62 anticyclonic phase — antipleion Page 63 antiproton — apaapaa Page 64 aperiodic — apogean tide Page 65 apogean winds — applied climatology Page 66 applied hydrology — aquifer system Page 67 aquifer test — arc cloud Page 68 arc discharge — Arctic Circle Page 69 arctic climate — arctic sea smoke Page 70 arctic stratospheric vortex — area forecast Page 71 area of high pressure — arid climate Page 72 arid-zone hydrology — Arrhenius equation Page 73 Arrhenius expression — artificial horizon Page 74 artificial ice nucleus — aspect ratio Page 75 aspect — Assmann psychrometer Page 76 astronomical horizon — asymptotic expansion Page 77 asynchronous communication — atmosphere–ocean interaction Page 78 atmosphere — atmospheric dust Page 79 atmospheric dynamics — atmospheric oscillation Page 80 atmospheric ozone — atmospheric region Page 81 atmospheric science — atmospheric wave Page 82 atmospheric window — attractor Page 83 audibility zone — auroral bands Page 84 auroral corona — Australasian Mediterranean Water Page 85 austru — autocorrelation Page 86 autogenous electrification — autoregressive process Page 87 autoregressive series — auxiliary thermometer Page 88 available head — average drag coefficient Page 89 average interstitial velocity — aviation forecast Page 90 aviation meteorology — axial symmetry Page 91 axis of anticyclone — ayalas Page 92 aygalas — Azores high