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digging trough

A colloquial term for an upper-level trough that is amplifying, often deepening, and pushing equatorward due to a jet streak on the upstream side of the trough, causing a net import of cyclonic vorticity into the base of the trough.

Contrast lifting trough.

Term edited 15 November 2021.

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