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entrainment

A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

entrainment The process by which air from the environment outside a growing cloud is caught into the rising convective current within the cloud and mixed with the cloudy air. This is significant in that it reduces the buoyancy of the rising current and causes cloud growth by reason of the cooler, drier air which is introduced. This also causes some evaporation of cloud droplets. When very dry air is introduced, entrainment can produce rapid dissipation of the cloud.

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entrainment

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

entrainment Process by which air from the environment outside a growing cloud is caught into the rising convective current within the cloud and mixed with the cloudy air. This is significant in that it reduces the buoyancy of the rising current and causes cloud growth by reason of the cooler, drier air which is introduced. This also causes some evaporation of cloud droplets. When very dry air is introduced, entrainment can produce rapid dissipation of the cloud.

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entrainment

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

entrainment A phenomenon in which the medium through which a jet propagates is drawn into the jet itself. One example is the presence of neutrons in the solar wind. Since the neutrons cannot have been accelerated by the processes thought to produce the proton and electron components of the solar wind, they must have been entrained into the cosmic rays from the outer layers of the Sun. Jets from radio galaxies may also contain material entrained from the galaxy.

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