Glossary of Weather Terms
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- Sounding
- A plot of the vertical profile of temperature and dew point (and often winds) above a fixed location. Soundings are used extensively in severe weather forecasting, to determine instability, locate temperature inversions, measure the strength of the cap, obtain the convective temperature.
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