Misoscale is the scale of meteorological phenomena that ranges in size from 40 meters to about 4 kilometers. It includes rotation within a thunderstorm.
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Microscale meteorology — is the study of short lived atmospheric phenomena smaller than mesoscale, about 1 km or less.[1] These two branches of meteorology are sometimes grouped together as mesoscale and microscale meteorology (MMM) and together study all phenomena… … Wikipedia
Mesoscale meteorology — is the study of weather systems smaller than synoptic scale systems but larger than microscale and storm scale cumulus systems. Horizontal dimensions generally range from around 5 kilometers to several hundred kilometers. Examples of mesoscale… … Wikipedia
Synoptic scale meteorology — The synoptic scale in meteorology (also known as large scale or cyclonic scale) is a horizontal length scale of the order of 1000 kilometres (about 620 miles) or more [American Meteorological Society.… … Wikipedia
