Sentences with phrase «diabatic heating»
Diabatic heating refers to the process where air or a fluid gets warmer due to the release or absorption of heat energy. This can occur when moisture or energy is added or removed from the air or fluid, causing it to heat up or cool down. Full definition
The tendency for clouds to form where air is going up creates an asymmetry of diabatic heating in a wave (see figure below).
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Excessively deep equivalent depths suggest that these models may not have a large enough reduction in their «effective static stability» by diabatic heating.
This study investigates the features of eastward extension of the South Asian high (SAH) and its connection with diabatic heating and rainfall over eastern Asia on subseasonal time scales.
A further complication is that regional diabatic heating results in nonlinear long - distance communication of convergence and divergence fields, often referred to as teleconnections.
The heterogeneous diabatic heating can modulate the gradient in horizontal pressure field and atmospheric circulations, thus altering the regional climate...»
Diabatic temperature changes on the other hand can occur in the form of diabatic heating or diabatic cooling.
When clouds form, the diabatic heating from condensed water vapor warms the air.
Idealized horizontal profiles of vertical velocity (left) and diabatic heating (right) to illustrate how convective heating is asymmetric in an atmospheric wave.
The prime contributor to diabatic heating is the sun.»
Rosenfeld (2000) refers to these kinds of aerosol forcings as thermodynamic forcing because the spatial patterns of diabatic heating are changed.