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Sailing Glossary - Letter W

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Wadi:A valley, gully, or ... ...

Warning stage:The stage on a fixed ... ...

Water:Dihydrogen oxide, mo ... ...

Water balance:Balance of the water ... ...

Water budget:See hydrologic accou ... ...

Water equivalent:The depth of water t ... ...

Water table:The depth below whic ... ...

Water year:Any twelve-month per ... ...

Water-flow pyrheliometer:An absolute pyhrliom ... ...

Water-stage recorder:A device for obtaini ... ...

Watershed:The total area drain ... ...

Watt:A unit of power equa ... ...

Wave pole:A device for measuri ... ...

Wave recorder:An instrument for re ... ...

Wave staff:Same as wave pole. ... ...

Weather:The state of the atm ... ...

Weather glass:An old nautical term ... ...

Weather stick:Made of birch and at ... ...

Weighing rain gauge:A precipitation gaug ... ...

Weight barograph:A recording weight b ... ...

Weight barometer:A mercury barometer ... ...

Wet-bulb depression:Difference between t ... ...

Wet-bulb temperature:The lowest temperatu ... ...

Wet-bulb thermometer:A thermometer with a ... ...

White body:A hypothetical \body ... ...

White rainbow:Same as fogbow. ... ...

Whole gale:Wind with a speed be ... ...

Wien's law:One of the radiation ... ...

Wild fence:A wooden enclosure a ... ...

Wilting point:Value of soil moistu ... ...

Wind:Air in motion relati ... ...

Wind cone:Same as wind sock. ... ...

Wind direction:The direction from w ... ...

Wind gust:See gust and peak gu ... ...

Wind passage:The distance or leng ... ...

Wind rose:A flower-like diagra ... ...

Wind run:The distance or leng ... ...

Wind shear:A local variation of ... ...

Wind sleeve:Same as windsock. ... ...

Wind sock:A fabric cone attach ... ...

Wind speed:Rate of wind movemen ... ...

Wind vane:An instrument used t ... ...

Wind vector:A component of the w ... ...

Wind velocity:A vector term which ... ...

Wind wave:A wave resulting fro ... ...

Windmill anemometer:A rotation anemomete ... ...

Winds aloft:The wind speed and d ... ...

Winds-aloft observation:The measurement and ... ...

Winds-aloft plotting board:A graphical aid used ... ...

Wire weight gauge:A river gauge in whi ... ...

Wiresonde:An atmospheric sound ... ...

Word:A fixed-length group ... ...

Wyoming shield:A type of rain gauge ... ...

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