large scale

A scale such that the curvature of the earth may not be considered negligible; this scale is applicable to the high tropospheric long-wave patterns, with four or five waves around the hemisphere in the middle latitudes.

Related terms:

• large-scale convection
• cyclonic scale
• Richter Magnitude Scale
• geologic time scale
• NRM wind scale
• large ion
• large nuclei
• synoptic scale
• Mercalli scale
• blue-sky scale