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Abbreviation for adenine.
- Browse Related Terms: A, ACP, AI, ASA, BOD, Bt, C, CBD, ccc DNA, cM, cpDNA, EDV, F1, g, GDP, GLP, GRAS, GUS, Hup+, log phase, LPS, MAS, messenger RNA, monocot, mtDNA, NFT, OLA, OPU, ORF, PEG, PG, Phage, PHB, PPM, PR protein, PWP, RH, RIA, RIP, RNAase, RNase, RuBP, SC, SCA, SCE, SCP, simple sequence repeat, SNP, sperm, ssDNA, T, U, VSG
apparent trace.
- Browse Related Terms: A, Burden, Caldera (crater), Deflagration, Detonator, Fuse, Millisecond delay (short period delay), Spacing
1. Abbrevation for hail in weather observations.
2. Symbol used on long-term climate outlooks issued by CPC to indicate areas that are likely to be above normal for the specified parameter (temperature, precipitation, etc.).
- Browse Related Terms: A, B, CL, Climate Diagnostics Bulletin, Climatological Outlook, Drought Assessments, ENSO Diagnostic Discussion, Hazards Assessment, OTLK, PWO, SWODY2
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Arctic Air Mass
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architectural and engineering.
- Browse Related Terms: A&E (A/E), ACER, ARAR, AS, Hydraulics, Pan evaporation
A daily index of geomagnetic activity derived as the average of the eight 3-hourly a indices.
- Browse Related Terms: A Index, AVG, Climate, Composite, Maximum Sustained Surface Wind, mean, Mean Annual Temperature, Meteorology, Rogue Wave, Significant wave height, Smoothed Sunspot Number, Sustained Wind
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Abbreviation for aminoacyl site.
- Browse Related Terms: A-site, AB, BABS, basic fibroblast growth factor, BFGF, IPR, MAB, npt-II, ovum pickup, parts per million, PERV, plant variety protection, v/v
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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All American Canal.
- Browse Related Terms: AAC, ACGIH, AIPC, AIRFA, AISC, ANSI, ARWRI, ASCE, ASCII, ASSE, Avoirdupois weight, AWWA, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Tribe, United States
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average annual habitat units.
- Browse Related Terms: AAHU, Acre (ac), Barrel, Biological diversity, BTU, Community, Contract rate, Corps of Engineers., Decibel, Distribution (Hydro)Graph, population density
annual arithmetic mean.
- Browse Related Terms: AAM, AGM, Average, B/C, Capital investment, Index of Wetness
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- Browse Related Terms: AAR, ACR, Alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR), Alkali-carbonate reaction (ACR), Alkali-silica reaction (ASR), Alkali-silicate/silica reaction (ASSR), ASR, ASSR, DI, diatom, Pattern cracking
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Alaskan Aviation Weather Unit
- Browse Related Terms: AAWU, Few Clouds, Instrument Flight Rules, Marginal Visual Flight Rules, MVFR, OVC, overcast, Scattered, State Weather Roundup, TWEB, Widespread
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Abbreviation for antibody.
- Browse Related Terms: A-site, AB, BABS, basic fibroblast growth factor, BFGF, IPR, MAB, npt-II, ovum pickup, parts per million, PERV, plant variety protection, v/v
Assembly Bill.
- Browse Related Terms: °C, AB, Additive effect, Celsius (C), (°C), EEO, Fahrenheit (F), Fly ash, Median, Medium-size water system, Mill, Nominal dollars
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- Browse Related Terms: ABC, ACWA, ag, BADA, Basin States, Crop subsidy, CWA, Nonterritorial communities
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Widely accepted model of flower organ identity that appears generally applicable to distantly related dicotyledon ous, although less well to monocotyledon ous plants. The model incorporates the Arabidopsis genes required for flower organ identity.
- Browse Related Terms: ABC model, angiosperm, dicotyledon, gibberellins, gymnosperm, inflorescence, monocotyledon, perennial, petal, phytochrome, plastid, pseudocarp, pyrethrins, short-day plant, variegation, vernalization, vessel element
Atypical, departing from the normal type or structure.
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With regards to physics, a discontinuity or distortion in an image produced by a lens. There is also Astronomical Aberration, which is completely unrelated, and describes the difference between the apparent position of a star to an observer on earth and the actual position of the star in the sky. This is due to the time it takes the light from the star to reach us. (In the mean time, while observers on earth are 'waiting' for the star light to reach them, the star has moved). For example, when we look up in the sky, we are seeing where the sun was 9 minutes ago, since it takes light from the sun 9 minutes to reach the earth.
- Browse Related Terms: Aberration, Big Bang, Cosmological Principle, Curvature of Spacetime, General Relativity, Hubble's Law, Milky Way, Quasar, Recede, Relativity, Spacetime, Supernova
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Absence of living organisms.
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Nonliving. Compare biotic.
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Having an absence of life or living organisms.
- Browse Related Terms: Abiotic, anaerobic digestion, Bioassay, Biochemical conversion process, Bioconcentration, Biological oxidation, Biome, bioremediation, Biotechnology, Biotic, BOD5, Cellulase, Clone, Ecology, Ecosystem, Landfill gas, Methanogen, Organic, Organic level, PCB´s, Watershed
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Non-living or non-biological; includes chemical and physical environments and processes.
- Browse Related Terms: Abiotic, Anthropogenic emissions, Demand-side management, Direct effects, Ecosystem, Effects, Full-time equivalent (FTE), Indirect effects, NatureServe, Noise criteria, Reclamation, Stressors
The absence of living organisms.
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Outside (nonliving) factors which can cause harmful effects to plants, such as soil conditions, drought, extreme temperatures.
- Browse Related Terms: Abiotic stress, co-evolution, glycoalkaloids, halophyte, nitrification, Nitrogen fixation, salt tolerance, soil amelioration, soil-less culture, thermophile, water potential, xerophyte
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Ablation (1) Combined processes (such as sublimation, fusion or melting, evaporation) which remove snow or ice from the surface of a glacier or from a snow-field. Also used to express the quantity lost by these processes. (2) Reduction of the water equivalent of a snow cover by melting, evaporation, wind and avalanches.
- Browse Related Terms: Ablation, Cryosphere, freshwater, Geosphere, Geothermal energy, glacier, haline, Hydrologic Cycle, Hydrosphere, ice rafted detritus, ice sheet, jökulhlaup, loess, tephra, varve, Wetland
The process by which ice and snow dissipate owing to melting and evaporation.
- Browse Related Terms: Ablation, Acidified, Aliquot, Erratic, Firn (Snow), Firn Line, Flooded Ice, glacier, Glacier (ice sheet), Metamorphic, Snow Accumulation and Ablation Model, Snow Core, Snow Water Equivalent, Snowmelt Flooding, Snowpack, Water Equivalent, Weighing-type Precipitation Gage
Depletion of snow and ice by melting and evaporation.
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