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Several flow
patterns are
characteristic of
large deformation: confluence,
diffluence, and
shear flow. Confluence, also
known as stretching, is the elongating...
- have
helped to
facilitate the cyclone's intensification; the
first was
diffluence or
streamline divergence – the
elongating of a
fluid body
normal to the...
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continued its
approach from the west, upper-air
plots showed enhanced diffluence focused across much of the region. Into the
afternoon hours, the surface...
- skies,
diamond dust is
sometimes referred to as clear-sky precipitation.
diffluence The
elongation of a
fluid body, such as an air m****,
normal to the flow...
- are
drawn across to the
Northeast by the jet stream. The
divergence or
diffluence in the
upper atmosphere caused by the jet
stream removes and dis****s...
- land,
believed to have been
caused by the
process known as upper-level
diffluence. On 29 December, what was
originally believed to be a
separate system...
- and deep
convection to the north, the
system underwent development from
diffluence, low to
moderate vertical wind shear, and warm sea
surface temperatures...
-
moderate upper-level wind
shear inhibited organization,
while strong diffluence aloft aided in
developing convection.
Vertical shear decreased greatly...
- 240 km/h),
oriented itself northeastward over the state,
providing strong diffluence. A
large mid-level trough,
centered near
Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, was...
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system can be
steered by the
upper level system into an area with
better diffluence aloft,
which can
cause further development.
Weaker upper cyclones are...
