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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Gentle whirls of foggy air that form within [[steam fog]] when cold air advects over a warmer body of water or saturated surface; analogous to [[dust devils]], except that water droplets are the [[tracers]] that make the whirl visible.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">These are usually shallow phenomena in the [[surface layer]] of a [[thermal internal boundary layer]].</div><br/> </div> | <div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">Gentle whirls of foggy air that form within [[steam fog]] when cold air advects over a warmer body of water or saturated surface; analogous to [[dust devils]], except that water droplets are the [[tracers]] that make the whirl visible.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">These are usually shallow phenomena in the [[surface layer]] of a [[thermal internal boundary layer|thermal internal boundary layer]].</div><br/> </div> | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:58, 25 April 2012
steam devils
Gentle whirls of foggy air that form within steam fog when cold air advects over a warmer body of water or saturated surface; analogous to dust devils, except that water droplets are the tracers that make the whirl visible.
These are usually shallow phenomena in the surface layer of a thermal internal boundary layer.
