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- rising air, often within a cloud. Vertical drafts, known as updrafts or downdrafts, are localized regions of warm or cool air that move vertically. A m****...
- The rear flank downdraft (RFD) is a region of dry air wrapping around the back of a mesocyclone in a supercell thunderstorm. These areas of descending...
- Downdraft tables or downdraught benches are workbenches with built-in ventilation to capture dust, smoke, and fumes and draw them away from the operator...
- rain-free updraft base or main updraft (not visible to radar). The rear flank downdraft, or RFD, carries precipitation counterclockwise around the north and northwest...
- drive a turbine at the tower's bottom. An energy tower (also known as a downdraft energy tower, because the air flows down the tower) is a tall (1,000 meters)...
- is more dense and sinks down behind the cloud and forms the rear flank downdraft, drying the mid-level portion of the back of the cloud. The two currents...
- dominates in the mesoscale environment. However, this is not the case. With downdrafts ushering colder air from mid-levels, hitting ground and propagating away...
- pounding the aircraft at an extreme rate. The aircraft was struck by a downdraft and because of it the pitch started to increase. As the autopilot tried...
- an area of quickly descending air known as the rear flank downdraft (RFD). This downdraft accelerates as it approaches the ground, and drags the supercell's...
- with other droplets and become larger. The falling droplets create a downdraft as it pulls cold air with it, and this cold air spreads out at the Earth's...