• Thumbnail for Convective instability
    In meteorology, convective instability or stability of an air mass refers to its ability to resist vertical motion. A stable atmosphere makes vertical...
    7 KB (988 words) - 09:13, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convective available potential energy
    the convective condensation level (CCL) where heating from below causes spontaneous buoyant lifting to the point of condensation when the convective temperature...
    17 KB (2,322 words) - 18:22, 18 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Instability
    symmetric or convective symmetric instability; barotropic instability; Helmholtz or shearing instability; rotational instability Hydrostatic instability or static...
    10 KB (938 words) - 06:42, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmospheric instability
    are two primary forms of atmospheric instability. Under convective instability, thermal mixing through convection in the form of rising warm air leads...
    16 KB (1,916 words) - 04:09, 1 September 2024
  • prisms or spirals. The convective Bénard cells are not unique and will usually appear only in the surface tension driven convection. In general the solutions...
    19 KB (2,130 words) - 07:50, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atmospheric convection
    Atmospheric convection is the result of a parcel-environment instability (temperature difference layer) in the atmosphere.[jargon] Different lapse rates...
    30 KB (3,270 words) - 04:10, 29 August 2024
  • (absolute instability). In the spatial approach, simulations mimic a lab experiment with natural inlet and outlet conditions (convective instability). The...
    11 KB (1,007 words) - 15:50, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of cloud types
    physical forms. These are, in approximate ascending order of instability or convective activity: stratiform sheets; cirriform wisps and patches; stratocumuliform...
    79 KB (7,521 words) - 20:32, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conditional symmetric instability
    Conditional symmetric instability, or CSI, is a form of convective instability in a fluid subject to temperature differences in a uniform rotation frame...
    14 KB (1,716 words) - 17:10, 12 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hydrodynamic stability
    dispersed in a binary liquid mixtures, is able to drive a convective hydrodynamic instability even though the system is initially in a condition of stable...
    21 KB (2,866 words) - 03:38, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for September 2023 New York floods
    the region as a result of favorable precipitable water values, convective instability, and low-level winds. This induced high rainfall totals across northwestern...
    52 KB (3,939 words) - 14:52, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thunderstorm
    polar lows, and mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs), and they generally form near weather fronts. Most mesoscale convective systems develop overnight...
    80 KB (8,560 words) - 16:46, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cumulonimbus cloud
    Cumulonimbus cloud (category Severe weather and convection)
    portal Atmospheric convection Atmospheric thermodynamics Convective instability Hot tower Lifted condensation level (LCL), convective condensation level...
    16 KB (1,449 words) - 22:22, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cumulus congestus cloud
    related to Cumulus congestus clouds. Atmospheric thermodynamics Convective instability Cumulus castellanus cloud Pileus American Meteorological Society...
    8 KB (755 words) - 21:39, 19 May 2024
  • chemical compound Stability constants of complexes, in solution Convective instability, a fluid dynamics condition Ecological stability, measure of the...
    4 KB (487 words) - 09:36, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convection
    this article) from convective heat transfer. Some phenomena which result in an effect superficially similar to that of a convective cell may also be (inaccurately)...
    57 KB (7,021 words) - 02:20, 4 November 2024
  • Glossary of tornado terms (category Severe weather and convection)
    CINh) Convective instability Convective outlook Convective storm Convective storm detection Convective storm prediction Convective temperature (CT or...
    26 KB (2,553 words) - 13:31, 23 May 2024
  • code base frequently CodeIgniter, a PHP framework Cirrus cloud Convective instability Conditional independence, a type of relation of random variables...
    6 KB (698 words) - 21:21, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Calvin Mackie
    Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. Mackie, Calvin (June 29, 1999). "Convective Stability of a Particle-laden Fluid System in the Presence of Solidification"...
    10 KB (823 words) - 03:17, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convective inhibition
    thermodynamics Convective instability Equilibrium level Thermodynamic diagrams Colby, Frank P. Jr. (1984). "Convective Inhibition as a Predictor of Convection during...
    6 KB (803 words) - 20:24, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for August 2023 mid-south U.S. floods
    with abundant moisture and convective instability, along with a strong low-level convergence zone, sustaining the convection, causing heavy rainfall across...
    28 KB (2,038 words) - 04:40, 1 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dust storm
    Bowl years in the U.S. Following the passage of a dry cold front, convective instability resulting from cooler air riding over heated ground can maintain...
    22 KB (2,285 words) - 22:45, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glossary of meteorology
    the winter. convection See atmospheric convection. convective available potential energy (CAPE) convective condensation level convective inhibition (CIN)...
    187 KB (21,500 words) - 23:23, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lifted index
    Lifted index (category Severe weather and convection)
    integration from one level to another. Atmospheric convection Atmospheric thermodynamics Convective instability Lapse rate Blanchard, David O. (1998-09-01)....
    4 KB (407 words) - 16:25, 27 November 2023
  • subgiants because they are fully convective. Stars with masses between about 0.4 M☉ and 1 M☉ have small non-convective cores on the main sequence and develop...
    15 KB (1,845 words) - 23:40, 18 October 2024
  • used in solar cell technology Conditional symmetric instability, a form of convective instability in a fluid California Solar Initiative, a renewable...
    5 KB (587 words) - 02:34, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Equilibrium level
    LNB from land to sea). Atmospheric thermodynamics Convective instability Level of free convection Lifted condensation level Takahashi, Hanii; Z. Luo...
    2 KB (212 words) - 04:18, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Breaking wave
    temperature decreases with height, leading to energy dissipation through convective instability; likewise, Rossby waves are said to break when the potential vorticity...
    10 KB (1,280 words) - 00:05, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convection cell
    In fluid dynamics, a convection cell is the phenomenon that occurs when density differences exist within a body of liquid or gas. These density differences...
    8 KB (884 words) - 07:26, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Warm front
    With its warm and humid characteristics, this air is susceptive to convective instability and can sustain thunderstorms, especially if lifted by the advancing...
    9 KB (842 words) - 20:01, 13 August 2024