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warm advection
Definição1
Transport of warm air into an area by horizontal winds. Low-level warm advection sometimes is referred to (erroneously) as overrunning. Although the two terms are not properly interchangeable, both imply the presence of lifting in low levels.
Fonte1
UNITED STATES. National Weather Service. National weather service glossary. [20-?]. In: ______. [Homepage]. [Silver Spring, MD, 20-?]. Disponível em: < https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php >. Acesso em: 11 dez. 2019.
Fonte2
SAUCIER, Walter J. Principles of Meteorological Analysis. [s.l.]: Dover Publications, 1989.
Contexto
Areas of pronounced warm advection are shown over western Canada, the coast of Labrador, and south of Nova Scotia, the latter of which suggests the possibility of a warm front (as also by the pressure pattern).
Subárea
Aeronautical Meteorology
Related Term
advection
cold advection
Français
advection d'air chaud