List of of weather definitions.

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Infiltration
Some water falling on the earth's surface soaks into the ground,. and joins the underground aquifers.
Insolation
The suns energy transmitted in the form of short wave radiation.
Isobars
Lines drawn on a weather map to show places of equal barometric pressure.
Isohyets
Lines drawn on a map to show places of equal average annual rainfall (millimeters)
Isotherms
Lines drawn on a map to show places of equal average temperature.
Temperature Inversion
This is a feature occuring in the early morning after a clear night, when terrestrial radiation is lost to space and the air near the ground has become cooler than the air above.
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