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| #<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Buoyant jet in which the [[buoyancy]] is supplied from a [[point source]]; the buoyant region is continuous.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph"><br/>''See'' [[thermal]].</div><br/> </div>
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| #<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">A mostly horizontal (sometimes initially vertical) stream of air [[pollutant]] that is being blown [[downwind]] from a smokestack.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">Typical smoke-plume diameters are of order 1–10 m initially, gradually expanding to 100 m or more, while lengths can be order of 1–100 km. The path and shape of the [[smoke]] plume can indicate the nature of [[turbulence]] in the [[atmospheric boundary layer]], such as [[looping]] plumes, [[fanning]] plumes, and [[coning]] plumes.</div><br/> </div><div class="reference">Emanuel, K. A. 1994. Atmospheric Convection. Oxford University Press, . p. 16. </div><br/>
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