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- meteorology, an updraft (British English: up-draught) is a small-scale current of rising air, often within a cloud. Vertical drafts, known as updrafts or downdrafts...
- The solar updraft tower (SUT) is a design concept for a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from low temperature solar heat. Sunshine...
- An updraft carburetor is a type of carburetor in which the air flows upward within the device. Other types are downdraft and sidedraft. An updraft carburetor...
- characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft. Due to this, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms...
- lighter objects—especially paper goods—can be absorbed by the storm's updraft and moved into its forward-flank downdraft where they can be transported...
- A tilted updraft (also known as a tilted storm) is a thunderstorm which is not vertically erect. This happens as a result of unidirectional wind shear...
- downdrafts and updrafts (i.e., where its ****ociated precipitation is not falling through the updraft) with a strong, rotating updraft (a "mesocyclone")...
- strong the updraft is: weaker hailstorms produce smaller hailstones than stronger hailstorms (such as supercells), as the more powerful updrafts in a stronger...
- supercell. They typically look to its rear, the main region of updraft and inflow. Under that updraft is a rain-free base, and the next step of tornadogenesis...
- thunderstorms. This process occurs when updrafts in the storm intensify, leading to an ac****ulation of precipitation at the updraft summit. As this rainwater spills...