Thermal wind
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thermal-wind-290-5069628
title:
Thermal wind
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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 these two force balances is called thermal wind balance, a term generalizable also to more complicated horizontal flow balances such as gradien
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Vector difference of geostrophic wind movement at high and low altitudes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_wind
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2024-01-04T03:46:13Z
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