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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...
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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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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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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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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...
- 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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sufflation fluō flu- flux- flux- flow affluence, affluent, confluence,
diffluence, effluent, efflux, fluency, fluent, fluid, flume, flux, fluxion, influence...
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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)...
- above-average sea
surface temperatures,
moderate moisture content, and
favorable diffluence. A
subtropical ridge to the
north steered the
system generally west-northwest...
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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...