A Dictionary of Weather

diffluence

A Dictionary of Weather | 2001 | Copyright

diffluence An increase in the separation of the streamlines in a flow such as an airstream. It is the opposite of confluence and may be considered as an increase in the area covered by the flow. It is generally accompanied by a decrease in wind speed downwind, and…

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Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review ...advection. Most mobile trough births in diffluence, however, tend to be associated with...with mobile trough genesis-one in diffluence and one in confluence-are compared...processes acting on F^sub n^ for the diffluence and confluence cases are tilting and...
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Estimating downburst-related maximum surface wind speeds by means of proximity...
Magazine article from: Weather and Forecasting ...tornadoes, which are not addressed in this study, these are mainly the diffluence of downbursts at the surface, but also density current propagation and...result from a combination of downward momentum transfer, cold-pool diffluence
Planetary-scale preconditioning for the onset of blocking
Magazine article from: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ...passage of synopticscale transients through this anomalous diffluence, as assessed by the coincidence of u'^sub p^ < 0...A diagnostic model for the development of the anomalous diffluence (preconditioning) will be presented and applied to this...
The Statistics and Structure of Subseasonal Midlatitude Variability in NASA...
Magazine article from: Journal of Climate ...for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate Model (CCM2). This model deficiency was attributed to relatively weak diffluence in the jet exit region of the Pacific. In a separate comparison study contrasting different versions of the CCM and the Goddard...
WEATHER ALERT: Tropical depression drifts south into Bay of Campeche.
Newspaper article from: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) ...ABOVE. CONVECTION HAS FLARED UP A BIT OVERNIGHT IN ASSOCIATION WITH T.D. 13...WHICH IS ALSO BEING ENHANCED BY UPPER DIFFLUENCE E OF AN UPPER LOW NEAR TUXPAN MEXICO. THE UPPER LOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE S OR SW AWAY FROM THE DEPRESSION...ALLOWING AN...
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PR Newswire ...highlights and selling points; on the other hand, substitute products such as PMP, music mobile phones and GPSs cause user diffluence. Table 1: Size & Growth Rate of China's MP3 Player Market, 2007 Jan-April and 2008 Jan-April Sales Volume Growth...
Predictability of the onset of blocking and strong zonal flow regimes
Magazine article from: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences ...associated with an intensified jet stream. The flow patterns of periods with low sensitivity are more zonal and weaker. The diffluence of the flow also results in an asymmetry between sensitivity for BL and SZF onset in the medium range. Nonlinear feedback...
The statistics and horizontal structure of anomalous weather regimes in the...
Magazine article from: Monthly Weather Review ...barotropic energy conversions from the climatological-mean flow. This is partly due to the relatively weak climatological-mean diffluence simulated by the CCM2 in the jet exit region over the eastern North Pacific. The model's North Atlantic regimes have horizontal...
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News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services ...tourism has absorbed a great deal of labor forces. It has decreased the press of framework reform and enterprise employee diffluence. Furthermore, developing tourism has been one of the important ways for minority depressed areas to become rich. The process...

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