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adj. - Of or relating to the horizontal movement of a mass of air which causes changes in temperature or in other physical properties of air

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  • Hasselman, 1976 in the asymptotic limit where complicating processes such as advective and diffusive exchanges of heat with the deep ocean are ignored e.g.
  • These include turbluent mixing, advective and convective processes, as well as mecanical mixing.
  • This is very likely to alter the advective pathways and basin residence times of sea ice formed in winter on the Eurasian shelves.
  • On the exposed hills and ridges facing southwest, the phenomenon of advective fog occurs, bringing moisture to the desert and leading to lomas vegetation.
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