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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A form of [[convection]] driven by a combination of gravitational and centrifugal forces.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Slantwise convection can occur in [[baroclinic]] flows in which the slantwise-upward displacement of [[air parcels]], elongated in the direction of the [[thermal wind]], results in a [[vector]] combination of [[buoyancy]] and [[Coriolis]] (or centrifugal) and [[pressure-gradient]] accelerations that drive the parcel in the same direction as the displacement. <br/>''See also'' [[symmetric instability]].</div><br/> </div> | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A form of [[convection]] driven by a combination of gravitational and centrifugal forces.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Slantwise convection can occur in [[baroclinic]] flows in which the slantwise-upward displacement of [[air parcels]], elongated in the direction of the [[thermal wind]], results in a [[vector]] combination of [[buoyancy]] and [[Coriolis acceleration|Coriolis]] (or centrifugal) and [[pressure gradient|pressure-gradient]] accelerations that drive the parcel in the same direction as the displacement. <br/>''See also'' [[symmetric instability]].</div><br/> </div> | ||
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slantwise convection
A form of convection driven by a combination of gravitational and centrifugal forces.
Slantwise convection can occur in baroclinic flows in which the slantwise-upward displacement of air parcels, elongated in the direction of the thermal wind, results in a vector combination of buoyancy and Coriolis (or centrifugal) and pressure-gradient accelerations that drive the parcel in the same direction as the displacement.
See also symmetric instability.
See also symmetric instability.
