Severe Convective Storms—An Overview

In general, convection, refers to the transport of some property by fluid movement, most often with reference to heat transport. As such, it is one of the three main processes by which heat is transported: radiation, conduction, and convection. Meteorologists typically use the term convection to refer to heat transport by the vertical component of the flow associated with buoyancy. Transport of heat (or any other property) by the nonbuoyant part of the atmospheric flow is usually called advection by meterologists; advection can be either horizontal or vertical.

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