Advection

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The transfer of a property of the atmosphere, such as heat, cold, or humidity, by the horizontal movement of an air mass: Today's temperatures were higher due to the advection of warm air into the region.
  • n. The rate of change of an atmospheric property caused by the horizontal movement of air.
  • n. The horizontal movement of water, as in an ocean current.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The horizontal movement of a body of atmosphere (or other fluid) along with a concomitant transport of its temperature, humidity etc.
  • n. The transport of a scalar by bulk fluid motion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties
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