drier air. The air tends to rise in an updraft through the process of convection (hence the term convective precipitation). This process creates a low-pressure...

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)...

structure surrounding the central base of a very tall chimney tower. The resulting convection causes a hot air updraft in the tower by the chimney effect...

prediction. A branch of the Earth Venture Missions, the Investigation of Convective Updrafts missions is planned to have three small satellites. The three...

form of latent heat and thus the updraft strength increases. Supercell thunderstorms or derechos can have gigantic updrafts at this altitude, updrafts with...

12 and will spend five weeks unloading the cargo. The SPHERES-Slosh investigation uses small robotic satellites on the International Space Station to...

mesoscale convective vortex. Attached to many wall clouds, especially in moist environments, is a cauda (tail cloud), a tail-like band of cloud extending...

microphysics, dynamics of convective clouds, and physics of stratocumulus clouds. He studied the interaction between updraft and downdraft in storm cells...

thunderstorms; specifically, a small mesoscale convective system (MCS) or large multicellular thunderstorm. It reaches heights of approximately 20 kilometres (66,000 ft)...

of strong updrafts and downdrafts. Satellite data also supported these findings. Images taken at 14:00 local time depicted a development of a severe weather...

Lemon technique Rear flank downdraft Convective storm detection Glickman, Todd S., ed. (2000). "Hook Echo". Glossary of Meteorology (2nd ed.). American Meteorological...

overview of convective patterns as well as, if necessary, a geographically specific narrative of meteorological reasoning and justification for the type of coverage...

microphysics. In 2021, van den Heever was named principal investigator of the NASA Investigation of Cloud Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which is expected to launch in...

values are indicative of extreme wind shear and a very high potential for rotating updrafts within supercells. Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico surged northward...

for the thunderstorm cloud, some of these charges can be redistributed by air movements within the storm (updrafts and downdrafts). In addition, there...

dynamic seeding, designed to enhance convective cloud development through the release of latent heat. Methods of dispersion include aircraft and ground-based...

lead to explosive thunderstorm development, very strong updrafts, and modulates the updraft to better enable tornadogenesis. Conditions were ripe for...

deliberately caused in which a ring of fire surrounding each city was drawn inward by an updraft caused by a central cluster of fires. The United States Army...

increasing the rate of fire spotting. During the formation of a firestorm many fires merge to form a single convective column of hot gases rising from...

product to automatically locate regions of thunderstorm activity. It is able to identify deep rotating updrafts that indicate a supercell thunderstorm...

effect: air rises as it is heated, and large wildfires create powerful updrafts that will draw in new, cooler air from surrounding areas in thermal columns...

advantage of thermals, updrafts, and food resources. During migration, it may ascend in a thermal and then glide down, or may ascend in updrafts created...

determining if a thunderstorm has a rotating updraft, a key indicator of the presence of the most dangerous type of thunderstorm, a supercell. The new dual...

result of fire". The Guardian. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017. "Met Police Statement. Update: Grenfell Tower fire investigation". MPS. 6...

agricultural storage) convection (see under Atmospheric convection) convective available potential energy (CAPE) (in meteorology) convective condensation level...

of the 20 bridge towers to collapse. There were no deaths or injuries. The tornado was produced by a mesoscale convective system (MCS), a complex of strong...

water and a great deal of ice crystals. The reason that tropical cyclones have little supercooled water is that the updrafts within such a system are...

supported by the storm's updraft, it falls from the cloud. Hail forms in strong thunderstorm clouds, particularly those with intense updrafts, high liquid water...

38 of the MCDs issued were convective discussions relating to the severe thunderstorm activity, and five were non-convective discussions relating to heavy...

downgraded to a 10-percent risk due to uncertainty about convective modes that day. A 45-percent risk of wind damage was also in place in the same general area...