mesoscale
Speech parts
1. mesoscale - Noun
2. mesoscale - Adjective
Meaning
Of medium size or extent; between microscale and macroscale
(meteorology, of a weather phenomenon) Roughly 2-200 kilometers in extent; between microscale and synoptic
mesoscale (plural mesoscales)
A scale of intermediate size
Examples
Mesoscale Convective Complex (MCC) - A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS), generally round or oval-shaped, which normally reaches peak intensity at night.
Within the cold sector, poleward and west of the cyclone center, small scale or mesoscale bands of heavy snow can occur within a cyclone's comma head pattern.
Typically the range of knowledge that is required overlaps with climatology, mesoscale and synoptic meteorology, and other geosciences.
In the North American Great Plains a southerly low-level jet helps fuel overnight thunderstorm activity during the warm season, normally in the form of mesoscale convective systems which form during the overnight hours.
Polar lows have been referred to by many other terms, such as polar mesoscale vortex, Arctic hurricane, Arctic low, and cold air depression.
They are part of the larger class of mesoscale weather systems.