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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...
- 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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continued its
approach from the west, upper-air
plots showed enhanced diffluence focused across much of the region. Into the
afternoon hours, the surface...
- form near
weather fronts and move into
areas of 1000-500 mb
thickness diffluence,
which are
areas where the low to mid
level temperature gradient broadens...
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moderate upper-level wind
shear inhibited organization,
while strong diffluence aloft aided in
developing convection.
Vertical shear decreased greatly...
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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...
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pressure formed over the
northwestern Caribbean Sea on May 20 due to the
diffluence of a trough. Dry air and wind
shear initially prevented development as...
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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)...
- 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...
