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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...
- 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...
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steadily westward towards the Philippines.
Located within a
region of good
diffluence and
moderate wind shear, deep
convection was able to
maintain itself over...
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moderate upper-level wind
shear inhibited organization,
while strong diffluence aloft aided in
developing convection.
Vertical shear decreased greatly...
- 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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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...
- and deep
convection to the north, the
system underwent development from
diffluence, low to
moderate vertical wind shear, and warm sea
surface temperatures...
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accompanied the weak
system despite being situated within an area of
moderate diffluence and weak to
moderate wind shear. Initially, the
system was
thought to...
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reflectivity core (DRC) Dew
point (Td) Dew
point depression Dewpoint surge line
Diffluence – A
pattern of wind flow in
which air
moves outward (in a "fan-out" pattern)...
- the mid-level deep
convection in an area of
strong westward upper-level
diffluence and
moderate easterly vertical wind shear, the
Joint Typhoon Warning Center...
