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Record 1 2013-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
  • Military Training
DEF

The amount of time considered the normal or standard amount for working during a given period(as a day, week or month).

OBS

full-time: term used in the context of military training.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
DEF

Nombre d'heures qui correspond à la durée normale de travail pendant une période déterminée (journée, semaine, mois).

OBS

temps plein : terme utilisé dans le contexte de l'instruction militaire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
  • Instrucción del personal militar
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Record 2 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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