Soaring birds have a mysterious ability to find thermals or updrafts, a vertical upward movement of air often caused by convection. Without convection, the mean surface air temperature on our planet ...

ABSTRACT Soil heat transfer is complex, and conduction-alone models may not always perform well in estimating soil apparent thermal diffusivity. Soil apparent thermal diffusivity is related to soil ...

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A one-dimensional (column) version of a primitive equations model has been used to study the impact of soil moisture and vegetation cover on the development of deep cumulus convection in the absence ...