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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...
- 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...
- The solar updraft tower (SUT) is a design concept for a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from low temperature solar heat. Sunshine...
- characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft. Due to this, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms...
- 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...
- strong the updraft is: weaker hailstorms produce smaller hailstones than stronger hailstorms (such as supercells), as the more powerful updrafts in a stronger...
- downdrafts and updrafts (i.e., where its ****ociated precipitation is not falling through the updraft) with a strong, rotating updraft (a "mesocyclone")...
- able to be told apart from a fractus cloud formation. When in an inflow (updraft) area, scud clouds tend to rise and may exhibit lateral movement ranging...
- weakening updrafts substantially and clouds losing their thickness. The leading area of a squall line is composed primarily of multiple updrafts, or singular...
- effect in a tall stack, or updraft tower, which may be either filtered or simply released at altitude as with a solar updraft tower, and which may not require...