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PENTAD [1 record]

Record 1 2010-06-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meteorology
  • Environmental Studies and Analyses
DEF

[A] period of five consecutive days sometimes used in the study of meteorological elements.

CONT

... products such as SSM/I WV, radiosonde WV [water vapor], TOVS WV, cloud liquid water, and Data Source Code (DSC) for total column and layered WV are provided. These products are available in four possible temporal averaging periods: day, month, pentad, and annual. ... pentad is a five day average of a given product.

CONT

pentad-climatology from IGOSS nmc: sea surface temperature fields blended from ship, buoy and bias-corrected satellite data ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Météorologie
  • Études et analyses environnementales
DEF

Période de cinq jours consécutifs pouvant être utilisée pour l'étude d'éléments météorologiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Meteorología
  • Estudios y análisis del medio ambiente
CONT

Figura N° 2. Pentada media de las series de tiempo sobre el cinturón tropical localizado entre 20°S y 20°N, con MSU34 (curva superior) y MSU23 (curva intermedia) de temperatura y con MSU de precipitación (curva inferior) para 1979.

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