FWS

Full Name: 
Fire Weather Subcommittee

Related Glossary Terms Tagged

Absolute Humidity
Adiabatic Process
Adjective Rating
Advection
Air Mass
Air Stagnation Advisory (ASA)
All Hazards Meteorological Response System (AMRS)
Ambient Air
Anemometer
Annual Operating Plan (for Fire Weather) (AOP)
Anticyclone
Assessment
Atmometer
Atmospheric Inversion
Atmospheric Pressure
Atmospheric Stability
Average Temperature
Backing Wind
Barometer
Beaufort Wind Scale
Belt Weather Kit
Blowup
Boundary Layer
Build-up 
Burn Severity
Buys Ballots Law
Ceiling
Celsius
Chain Lightning
Cirrus
Climate
Cloud
Cloudy
Cold Front
Combustion
Combustion Efficiency
Combustion Period
Combustion Rate
Conceptual Model
Condensation
Conduction
Conflagration
Conflagration Threat
Continental Climate
Convection
Convection Column
Convective Activity
Convergence
Convergence Zone
Coriolis Force
Crown Fire
Crown Ratio
Cumulonimbus
Cumulus
Deepening
Dense Layer
Dense Sky Cover
Depth of Burn (DOB)
Dew Point
Digital Elevation Model
Dispersion
Disturbance
Diurnal
Divergence
Drizzle 
Drought Index
Drought 
Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate
Dry Air Mass
Dry Bulb
Dry Episode (DE)
Dry Lightning Storm
Dry-bulb Thermometer
Eddy
Effective Windspeed
Energy Release Component (ERC)
Environment
Environmental Lapse Rate
Evaporation
Fahrenheit
Filling
Fire Environment
Fire Potential
Fire Season
Fire Trap
Fire Weather
Fire Weather Forecast
Fire Weather Station
Fire Weather Watch
Fire Whirl
Fire-flood Cycle
FIRECAST
FIREFAMILY (Fire Data Program)
Flash Fuels
Flashover
Foehn Wind
Forecast Area
Forestry Weather Information System (FWIS)
Freezing Rain
Friction Layer
Front
Frost
Fuel Dryness Level (DL)
General Fire Weather Forecast
General Winds
Gradient Wind
Gravimetric
Greenhouse Effect
Ground Fog
Ground Truth
Ground Visibility
Gust
Haines Index
Haze
Heat Low
Heat Release Rate
Heat Transfer
Heat Trough
Heat Value
Heat Yield
High Fire Risk Day
Humidity
Hydrophobicity
Hygrothermograph
Ignition Energy
Ignition Trigger
Impulse
In-stand Wind
Incident Weather Forecast
Infrared (IR)
Infrared Groundlink (IR)
Inversion
Isobar
Isotherm
Isothermal Layer
Knot
Lapse Rate
Lifting Processes
Light Wind
Lightning Fire 
Lightning Stroke Counter
Little Change
Local Winds
Long-Range Forecast
Long-Term Fire Danger
Low
Macroclimate
Marine Air
Marine Climate
Maritime Air
Mathematical Model
Mean Sea Level (MSL)
Medium-range Forecast
Micro-Remote Environmental Monitoring System (Micro-REMS)
Mid-Flame Windspeed
Millibar
Mixing
Mixing Height
Mixing Layer
Mobile Weather Unit Forecast
Model
Moist Adiabatic Lapse Rate
Monsoon Climate
Neutral Atmosphere
Normal Fire Season
Observation Time
Obstruction to Vision
Occluded Front or Occlusion
Offshore Flow
Onshore Flow
Orographic
Packing Ratio 
Peak Wind
Percolation
Permafrost
Pilot Balloon Operation (PIBAL)
Planetary Boundary Layer
Pocket Weather Meter
Precipitation
Precipitation Duration
Precipitation Gauge
Predictive Services
Pressure Gradient
Pressure Pattern
Probability
Probability Forecast
Radiosonde
Rawinsonde
Reaction Intensity
Recovery
Red Flag Warning
Regional Haze
Relative Humidity (RH)
Remote Automatic Weather Station (RAWS)
Residence Time
Ridge
Roll Cloud
Sample
Sample Size
Sea Breeze
Sea-level Pressure
Seasonal Monthly Average
Secondary Weather Station
Significant Fire Event
Significant Fire Potential
Significant Weather Trigger
Sky Cover
Slope Winds
Smog
Smoke Management
Smoke Plume
Smoke Vent Height
Soot
Sounding (Upper Air Sounding)
Source
Specific Heat
Split Flow
Spot Weather Forecast
Squall
Squall Line
Stable Atmosphere
Stable Layer of Air
Stagnant Conditions
State of Weather
Station Pressure
Statistic
Statistics
Storm Center
Subsidence
Subsidence Inversion
Sunny
Sunset and Sunrise
Surface Area-to-Volume Ratio
Surface High
Surface Low
Surface Wind
Synoptic
Synoptic Chart
Thermal Belt
Thermal Imagery
Thin Layer
Thin Sky Cover
Thunderstorm
Time-Temperature Curve
Transport Wind Speed
Trough
Turbulence
Upper Level (Cold) Low
Upper Level (Cold) Trough
Upper Level High
Upper Level Ridge
Variable
Variable Ceiling
Variable Sky Condition
Variable Visibility
Variable Wind Direction
Ventilation Factor
Ventilation Index
Vertical Temperature Profile
Virga
Visibility
Volatiles
Warm Front
Wave
Weather Advisory
Weather Information Management System (WIMS)
Wet-bulb Depression
Wet-bulb Temperature
Wet-bulb Thermometer
Wetting Rain
Wind
Wind Direction
Wind Profile
Wind Shear
Wind Shift
Wind Speed
Wind Vectors
Winds Aloft
Windspeed Meter
Woody Fuel Moisture
Woody Vegetation Condition
Zone Weather Forecast