to advect

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• For a big snow event, persistent high pressure located in Northern Scandinavia advects polar and sub-arctic air across the North Sea.

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• It tracks the changing velocity of individual particles along their paths as they are advected by the flow.

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• This term, as we know doesn't smooth the solution just can just advect it just carries it along.

• The convection process is maintained by a continuous supply of shallow water advected from tropical regions.

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• Lidar observations at UMBC show a cloud-capped boundary layer, with clouds advecting during our operation.

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• This result suggests that the extra downwelled water is advected all the way up to the North Atlantic, where it becomes dense, sinks in the usual way, and then flows back to the south as a deep current.

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• The katabatic winds warm adiabatically as they descend from the ice sheet, whereas the coastal breezes tend to be cool as they advect into the valley from the ice-covered McMurdo Sound.

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• The NCAR simulation is fantastic and very instructive on what happens to a tropical hurricane as it gets advected into a cold upper trough, thus collapsing the warm core and unspooling the surface pressure gradients.

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• The wind can advect warm air into colder regions, causing changes in temperature and weather patterns.

• Ocean currents advect warmer water from the equator toward the poles, influencing climate across the globe.

Antonyms

S

to stagnate

18 6.8

To stop growing or changing and stay the same, like water in a pond

How Moved

to transport

341 1.4

to advect

• Specialized

1 9.9

to drift

265 2.9

to remain

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology