eddy
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They can’t recreate every wind puff and ocean eddy, so they divide the world into a 3-D grid and generate myriad variables for each box, from soil temperature to ocean salinity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
The process, Hauptman said, has made him feel like “an eddy in a river.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025
Temperature data from satellites and buoys revealed a large southbound eddy moving through the region, coupled with 4 days of strong easterly winds, fueled strong upwelling.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 15, 2024
The eddy covariance stations consist of instruments and techniques for calculating the flux of trace gases, like water vapor, coming off the land surface.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2024
Far away, upstairs, perhaps in the nursery, a little eddy of wind gathered itself and swept along the floor, carrying dust.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Vocabulary lists containing eddy
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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