convergence and divergence

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Figure 7: Vertical cross sections through a wave system depicting typical divergence/convergence distributions for non-tilting and tilting systems.

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Figure 7: Vertical cross sections through a wave system depicting typical divergence/convergence distributions for non-tilting and tilting systems.

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orographic lifting fluid flow Froude number Navier-Stokes equation laminar flow geostrophic motion Stokes’s law turbulent flow Bernoulli’s theorem Torricelli’s law Reynolds number drag