moisture index

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• soil-moisture index — noun : ability of soil to supply moisture to plants …   Useful english dictionary

• Moisture analysis — covers a variety of methods for measuring moisture content in both high level and trace amounts in solids, liquids, or gases. Moisture in percentage amounts is monitored as a specification in commercial food production. There are many… …   Wikipedia

• Keetch-Byram Drought Index — The Keetch Byram Drought Index (KBDI), created by John Keetch and George Byram in 1968 for the United States Department of Agriculture s Forest Service, outlines mathematical models for predicting the likelihood of wildfire based on soil moisture …   Wikipedia

• Palmer Drought Index — The Palmer Drought Index, sometimes called the Palmer Drought Severity Index and often abbreviated PDSI, is a measurement of dryness based on recent precipitation and temperature. It was developed by meteorologist Wayne Palmer, who first… …   Wikipedia

• Normalized Difference Vegetation Index — Negative values of NDVI (values approaching 1) correspond to water. Values close to zero ( 0.1 to 0.1) generally correspond to barren areas of rock, sand, or snow. Lastly, low, positive values represent shrub and grassland (approximately 0.2 to 0 …   Wikipedia

• Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite — SMOS Caractéristiques Organisation ESA Domaine Étude de l humidité des sols et de la salinité des océans Masse 670 kg Lancement 2 novembre 2009 Durée de vie 3 a …   Wikipédia en Français

• temperature-humidity index — /tem peuhr euh cheuhr hyooh mid i tee/ or, often, / yooh , preuh , peuhr cheuhr , choor / a number representing an estimate of the effect of temperature and moisture on humans, computed by multiplying the sum of dry bulb and wet bulb temperature… …   Useful english dictionary

• Haines Index — is a weather index developed by the meteorologist Donald Haines in 1988 that measures the potential for rapid forest fires growth. The index is derived from the stability (temperature difference between different levels of the atmosphere) and… …   Wikipedia

• temperature-humidity index — /tem peuhr euh cheuhr hyooh mid i tee/ or, often, / yooh , preuh , peuhr cheuhr , choor / a number representing an estimate of the effect of temperature and moisture on humans, computed by multiplying the sum of dry bulb and wet bulb temperature… …   Universalium

• temperature-humidity index — A number representing an estimate of the effect of temperature and moisture on humans, computed by multiplying the sum of dry bulb and wet bulb temperature readings by 0.4 and adding 15, with 65 assumed as the highest comfortable index. Actual… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• burning index — noun : a number which is determined from the moisture content of a forest, wind speed, and other factors that affect burning conditions and from which ease of ignition and behavior of a forest fire may be estimated …   Useful english dictionary