What is "convective"

Usage examples of "convective".

The granules, individual convective cells, were themselves grouped into loose associations: supergranules, tens of thousands of miles across, roughly bounded by thin, shifting walls of stable gas.

And it's the properties of the material in the convective zone that cause sunspots.

She was deep within the Sun's convective zone, the broad mantle of turbulent material beneath the glowing photosphere.

The radiative zone was a ball of plasma which occupied eighty percent of the Sun's diameter—with the fusing core itself buried deep within—and the convective zone was a comparatively thin layer above the plasma, with the photosphere a crust at the boundary of space.

The thin, searing hot gas of the convective zone poured into its triangular faces, so that the Interface was embedded in a sculpture of inflowing gas, a flower carved dynamically from the Sun's flesh.

If that core were ever extinguished, then the flood of energetic photons out of the core and into the radiative and convective layers would be staunched.

The fusion was restricted to an inner core, surrounded by the plasma sea and the convective "atmosphere".

The waves were trapped in the convective layer, reflected from the vacuum beyond the photosphere and bent away from the core by the increasing sound speed in the interior.

The waves canceled and reinforced each other until only standing waves survived, modes of vibration which matched the geometry of the convective cavern.

The spheres and contour lines imploded in sparkles of pixels, exposing the native panorama of the convective cavern, a complex, ghostly overlay of flux tubes, p-modes and convection cells.

In response, immense convective cells—some of them large enough to have swallowed Sol itself surged through the interior.

Here the core heat continues its journey to space by powering huge convective spouts, each many times taller than Earth, ascending at not much more than walking pace.

Above the convective zone lies the visible surface of the sun, the photosphere, the source of sunlight and sunspots.

At the poles the cooling material sinks down into the body of the sun as far as the base of the convective zone, and then migrates back toward the equator.

We are looking at flaws in the radiative and convective zones, where a great deal of energy is in normal times stored.