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Western Disturbance — is the term used in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal to describe an extratropical storm that brings sudden winter rain and snow to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent. This is a non monsoonal precipitation pattern driven by… … Wikipedia
upper-air disturbance — A disturbance of the flow pattern in the upper air, particularly one developed more strongly aloft than near the ground. Also known as an upper level disturbance … Aviation dictionary
Success of fire suppression in northern forests — In North America, the belief that fire suppression has substantially reduced the average annual area burned is widely held by resource managers and is often thought to be self evident. Direct empirical evidence however is essentially limited to… … Wikipedia
dyssomnia — Disturbance of normal sleep or rhythm pattern. * * * dys·som·nia (dis somґne ə) [dys + somn + ia] [DSM IV] a category of disorders consisting of disturbances in the quality, amount, or timing of sleep, due to abnormalities in the mechanisms… … Medical dictionary
light — light1 lightful, adj. lightfully, adv. /luyt/, n., adj., lighter, lightest, v., lighted or lit, lighting. n. 1. something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light. 2. Physics … Universalium
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
disorder — A disturbance of function, structure, or both, resulting from a genetic or embryonic failure in development or from exogenous factors such as poison, trauma, or disease. adjustmen … Medical dictionary
Landscape ecology — is the science and art of studying and improving the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological processes on a multitude of scales and organizational levels (Wu 2006, 2008; Wu and Hobbs 2007). In a broad sense, landscape ecology… … Wikipedia
japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… … Universalium
Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… … Universalium
