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Thermal wind

In atmospheric science, the thermal wind is the vector difference between the geostrophic wind at upper altitudes minus that at lower altitudes in the atmosphere. It is the hypothetical vertical wind shear that would exist if the winds obey geostrophic balance in the horizontal, while pressure obeys hydrostatic balance in the vertical. The combination of…

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related to Jet stream · 16
Thermal wind → Because, Canadian, Due, Earth, Eurasia, Gulf Stream/warmer Atlantic, North America, North-South, Pacific, Siberian, Since, Southern Hemispheres, The, The Northern, Therefore, This
related to Physical explanation · 10
Thermal wind → Because, Coriolis, Earth's, However, In, Intuitively, Such, The, This, Whenever
causes · 3
Thermal wind → a deformation field and frontogenesis may occur, a deformation field and frontogenesis may occur.Jet streamA horizontal temperature gradient exists while moving North-South along a meridian because curvature of the Earth allow…, an increase in wind velocity with height
related to Advection turning · 3
Thermal wind → If, Otherwise, Wind
is a · 2
Thermal wind → change in the amplitude or sign of the geostrophic wind due to a horizontal temperature gradient, vector difference between the geostrophic wind at upper altitudes minus that at lower altitudes in the atmosphere
related to Frontogenesis · 2
Thermal wind → As, Thermal

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wind thermal temperature gradient horizontal geostrophic height pressure balance shear jet atmospheric vertical along relation force also layer stream northern

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Thermal windcausesa deformation field and frontogenesis may occur.Jet streamA horizontal temperature gradient exists while moving North-South along a meridian because curvature of the Earth allow…0.90text
Thermal windcausesan increase in wind velocity with height0.90text
Thermal windcausesa deformation field and frontogenesis may occur0.90text
Thermal windis avector difference between the geostrophic wind at upper altitudes minus that at lower altitudes in the atmosphere0.90text
Thermal windis achange in the amplitude or sign of the geostrophic wind due to a horizontal temperature gradient0.90text
gradient wind balance.Since the geostrophic wind at a given pressure level flows along geopotential height contours on a mapinstance ofa term generalizable also to more complicated horizontal flow balances0.80text
and the geopotential thickness of a pressure layer is proportional to virtual temperatureinstance ofa term generalizable also to more complicated horizontal flow balances0.80text
it follows that the thermal wind flows along thickness or temperature contoursinstance ofa term generalizable also to more complicated horizontal flow balances0.80text
Thermal windrelated to Advection turningIf0.60section
Thermal windrelated to Advection turningOtherwise0.60section
Thermal windrelated to Advection turningWind0.60section
Thermal windrelated to FrontogenesisAs0.60section

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