Tropical upper tropospheric trough
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Tropical upper tropospheric trough
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A tropical upper tropospheric trough (TUTT), also known as the mid-oceanic trough, is a trough situated in the upper-level tropics. Its formation is usually caused by the intrusion of energy and wind from the mid-latitudes into the tropics. It can also develop from the inverted trough adjacent to an upper level anticyclone. TUTTs are different from mid-latitude troughs in the sense that they are maintained by subsidence warming near the tropopause which balances radiational cooling. When strong,
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Trough in the upper-level tropics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_upper_tropospheric_trough
date created:
2005-08-17T14:03:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:15:26Z
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