The convective turbulence pummeled the little Eclipse 500, but the ride wasn't too bad.

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Occupying its outermost third is a convective zone where gas is rising and falling in planet-sized cells.

BBC: Sun, Trace

Tangential entries cause the warm moist air to spin as it rises forming an anchored convective vortex.

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There also was some concern about wildfires and convective storms that produce tornadoes, thunderstorms and other undesirable weather events.

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Below the convective zone lies a radiative zone, which is a calmer region, where photons transport the Sun's energy outward.

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Last year, scientists using a technique called helioseismology, probed the Sun's interior, revealing that currents of gas at the base of the convective zone change velocity every 16 months.

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TC4 project will generate new data on the icy cirrus clouds that are formed in the upper atmosphere by heat-driven, or convective, storm systems that coalesce over warm waters in the tropics.

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"Because the lake is generally warm and has a lot of moisture, we find that it generates this very big, what we call, convective potential energy, which generates a lot of cloudness and this unique nature of weather characterized by heavy thunderstorms which sometimes can be dangerous, " he explains.

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What they found was that during a period of less than two weeks in 1996, Atlanta's heat island caused convective thunderstorms, causing it to rain on the city or to the south and southeast about 50 or 60 miles, says Dale Quattrochi of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

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