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- adjective (Physics) involving a transfer of heat.
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- adjective physics describing a
process that involves thegain orloss ofheat , and a change inentropy
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- adjective involving a transfer of heat
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A diabatic circulation two-dimensional model with photochemistry: simulations of ozone and long-lived tracers with surface sources.
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This diabatic circulation also distributes ozone to lower altitudes in the high latitude regions, where, owing to a longer photochemical lifetime, it accumulates.
Factors affecting arctic ozone variability in the Arctic 2009
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The second is that the reduced system clearly indicates what balances are appropriate for all diabatic cases, i.e., it is the only method that has provided a hot start initialization for cases where the heating is the controlling influence on the solution.
Gerry Browning: Numerical Climate Models « Climate Audit 2006
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The regional alteration in tropospheric diabatic heating has a large influence on the climate system (see my
reesetee commented on the word diabatic
Not a typo! Means "occurring with an exchange of heat" (as opposed to adiabatic). Thanks to sionnach for the idea. :-)
February 14, 2007