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Motion of thermics in a stratified atmosphere

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Regular features of motion of thermics in a stratified atmosphere are considered. Thermics are single and multiple free volumes of floating gas, which successively arise with a certain frequency near a horizontal surface. In a real atmosphere, large-scale thermics of this type appear, for example, as a result of powerful pulse actions on the ambient medium that are successively produced at one point near the Earth surface.

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Institute of Physicotechnical and Radiotechnical Measurements, Moscow Region, Mendeleevo 141570. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 33–39, September–October, 1999.

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Zaslavskii, B.I., Yur’ev, B.V. Motion of thermics in a stratified atmosphere. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 40, 805–810 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02468462

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