Vertical shear refers to the force that causes an object to bend or break apart in a vertical direction. It happens when there is a difference in upward and downward forces along a vertical plane, leading to a splitting or tearing effect.
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«vertical»
«shear»
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- And since the factors involved in churning up flows of air are the subject of serious academic debate, they had a lot of possibilities to consider and at least 20 different units of measurement to factor into their models — technicalities like the magnitude of vertical shear of horizontal wind, flow deformation and simple wind speed, and highly specialised meteorological considerations such as the negative Richardson number, and the Brown energy dissipation rate. (climatenewsnetwork.net)
- Held, I., R. L. Panetta and 1985: Stationary external Rossby waves in vertical shear. (geosci.uchicago.edu)
- Conversely, due to well - researched upper - atmospheric flow (e.g. vertical shear) configurations favorable to Atlantic hurricane development and intensification, La Nina falls tend to favor very active seasons in the Atlantic (El Nino years are the converse, with must less activity, as forecast by Gray and NOAA for 2009). (wattsupwiththat.com)
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