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  2. Positive vorticity advection - Wikipedia

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    This produces convergence because of the way the air gains cyclonic vorticity while entering the base of the trough. The opposite happens when air is exiting the base of a trough. This air has more cyclonic vorticity than the air it is entering and therefore produces CVA. CVA produces divergence as a result of how there is a loss of cyclonic ...

  3. Langmuir circulation - Wikipedia

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    The upwelling is less intense and takes place over a wider band under the divergence zone. In wind speeds ranging from 2–12 m/s (6.6–39.4 ft/s) the maximum vertical velocity ranged from 2–10 cm/s (0.79–3.94 in/s) with a ratio of down-welling to wind velocities ranging from −0.0025 to −0.0085. [8]

  4. Convergence zone - Wikipedia

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    A convergence zone in meteorology is a region in the atmosphere where two prevailing flows meet and interact, usually resulting in distinctive weather conditions. [1] This causes a mass accumulation that eventually leads to a vertical movement and to the formation of clouds and precipitation . [ 1 ]

  5. Intertropical Convergence Zone - Wikipedia

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    Hurricanes Celia and Darby in the eastern Pacific and the precursor to Hurricane Alex in the Intertropical Convergence Zone. (2010) Tropical cyclogenesis depends upon low-level vorticity as one of its six requirements, and the ITCZ fills this role as it is a zone of wind change and speed, otherwise known as horizontal wind shear.

  6. Eddy covariance - Wikipedia

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    At one physical point on the tower, at time 1, eddy 1 moves parcel of air c 1 down at speed . Then, at time 2, eddy 2 moves parcel c 2 up at speed . Each parcel has gas concentration, pressure, temperature, and humidity. If these factors, along with the speed are known, we can determine the flux.

  7. Deformation (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    The deformation of horizontal wind is defined as ⁡ = +, where = + and =, representing the derivatives of wind component. Because these derivatives vary greatly with the rotation of the coordinate system, so do A {\displaystyle \ A} and B {\displaystyle \ B} .

  8. List of examples of convergent evolution - Wikipedia

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    Plant fruit: the fleshy nutritious part of plants that animal dispense by eating independently came about in flowering plants and in some gymnosperms like: ginkgo and cycads. [239] Water transport systems, like vascular plant systems, with water conducting vessels, independently came about in horsetails, club mosses, ferns, and gymnosperms. [240]

  9. Trough (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    Their motion induces upper-level wind divergence, lifting and cooling the air ahead (downstream) of the trough and helping to produce cloudy and rain conditions there. Unlike fronts, there is not a universal symbol for a trough on a surface weather analysis chart. The weather charts in some countries or regions mark troughs by a line.