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  • Thumbnail for Horizontal convective rolls
    Horizontal convective rolls, also known as horizontal roll vortices or cloud streets, are long rolls of counter-rotating air that are oriented approximately...
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    the cause of the convection is unspecified, convection due to the effects of thermal expansion and buoyancy can be assumed. Convection may also take place...
    57 KB (7,001 words) - 23:37, 19 August 2024
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    random shaking. Granular convection has been probed by the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), where convection rolls similar to those in fluids...
    16 KB (1,873 words) - 04:17, 26 August 2024
  • In fluid thermodynamics, Rayleigh–Bénard convection is a type of natural convection, occurring in a planar horizontal layer of fluid heated from below...
    19 KB (2,131 words) - 17:46, 18 August 2024
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    Southern Ocean Roll clouds over southern Brazil. Atmospheric convection Horizontal convective rolls (cloud streets) International Cloud Atlas Morning Glory...
    8 KB (866 words) - 14:18, 26 February 2024
  • conditions, massive convective rolls form in the atmosphere and the blizzard may be observed from space with the blizzards convective rolls creating waves...
    2 KB (271 words) - 16:51, 12 February 2024
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    vertical mixing is inhibited. Lee waves Orographic lift Horizontal convective rolls Wallace, John M., Hobbs, Peter V. Atmospheric Science, and Introductory...
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    conditions, massive convective rolls form in the atmosphere and the blizzard may be observed from space with the blizzards convective rolls creating waves...
    5 KB (577 words) - 12:02, 27 June 2024
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    fetch length. Acoustic wave Asteroseismology Green's law Horizontal convective rolls Lee wave Lunitidal interval Mesosphere#Dynamic features Morning Glory...
    17 KB (2,351 words) - 19:56, 22 July 2024
  • sequences of 4 period doublings have been observed in the dynamics of convection rolls in water and mercury. Similarly, 4-5 doublings have been observed in...
    13 KB (1,544 words) - 16:51, 2 May 2024
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    outer core must be convecting. The convection is likely some combination of thermal and compositional convection. The mantle controls the rate at which...
    34 KB (4,393 words) - 09:31, 12 July 2024
  • Hydrodynamic systems: the most prominent realization of DSs are domains of convection rolls on a conducting background state in binary liquids. Another example...
    40 KB (4,830 words) - 18:53, 20 August 2024
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    showing "lake-effect" snow over Kent and northeast England Horizontal convective rolls Ontario winter lake-effect systems Planetary boundary layer Sea smoke...
    44 KB (4,834 words) - 22:33, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Altocumulus cloud
    Like other cumuliform and stratocumuliform clouds, altocumulus signifies convection. A sheet of partially conjoined altocumulus perlucidus is sometimes found...
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  • mesovortex is a small-scale rotational feature found in a convective storm, such as a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS, i.e. squall line), a supercell, or...
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    being at a lower height, usually below 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). Weak convective currents create shallow cloud layers (see also: sea of clouds) because...
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    Mesocyclone (category Severe weather and convection)
    spinning in invisible tube-like rolls. The convective updraft of a storm then draws up this spinning air, tilting the rolls' orientation upward (from parallel...
    14 KB (1,502 words) - 21:48, 12 August 2024
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    velocity air. This allows more heat to be transferred by convection than regular convection cooling does. Impingement cooling is used in the regions of...
    31 KB (3,769 words) - 00:56, 21 March 2024
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    stratiform characteristics in the form of rolls, ripples, or elements. They generally form as a result of limited convection in an otherwise mostly stable airmass...
    124 KB (12,958 words) - 11:57, 24 August 2024
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    observed along the firefront. In addition to the strong winds, horizontal convective rolls embedded within the wind flow enabled the wildfire to quickly advance...
    78 KB (7,475 words) - 18:54, 2 July 2024
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