advection meaning

• Noun: advection  ud'vekshun
  1. (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties

  Derived forms: advections

  See also: advect, advective

  Type of: temperature change

  Encyclopedia: Advection

Examples

1. nonetheless advection is a more likely alternative food source
2. error estimates of characteristic finite element method for nonlinear advection-diffusion equation
3. thus, for an average-sized vent, advection could provide more than 30 kilograms of potential food per day
4. the local nonlinear advection increases evidently the inward-propagation of vorticity, and therefore strengthens the typhoon obviously
5. the numerical method for the inverse problem of second-dimensional advection-dispersion-reaction equations is discussed in the article