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microburst
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n. (context meteorology English) A strong downdraft, of less than 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
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A microburst is a small downdraft that moves in a way opposite to a tornado. Microbursts are found in strong thunderstorms. There are two types of microbursts within a thunderstorm: wet microbursts and dry microbursts. They go through three stages in their cycle, the downburst, outburst, and cushion stages. A microburst can be particularly dangerous to aircraft, especially during landing, due to the wind shear caused by its gust front. Several fatal crashes have been attributed to the phenomenon over the past several decades, and flight crew training goes to great lengths on how to properly recover from a microburst/wind shear event.
A microburst often has high winds that can knock over fully grown trees. They usually last from a couple of seconds to several minutes.
Usage examples of "microburst".
Sometimes, even in clear air, it could encounter a microburst strong enough to twist a support truss into the shape of a pretzel.
He studied the security charts, noting the areas where microburst transmissions had been recorded.
Virtually undetectable until it was activated, at which point it fired a microburst location signal.
Dust, held so long in equilibrium, exploited its liberation to squall in microburst vortices around the solid imperturbable boulders and jagged icebergs which made up the bulk of the ring, their gyrations mirroring the rowdy cloudscape a hundred and seventy thousand kilometres below.
Charley had antennae like the National Security Agency and they picked up the microburst transmission that passed between Tasha and Tim.
The bugs store information in packets, then microburst the packets out in irregular intervals to try to confuse a passive detection system.
She thought of Kalu, carefully forging real handmade letters by remote AI from his post at the bottom of the Pacific, and her heart squeezed itself closed over a sudden microburst of loving kindness.
He saw Halley and the others blown off course by the microbursts of wind that punctuate the Saturnian atmosphere.
And already, virgas of rain were hovering over the landscape, evaporating as quickly as they fell, blasting the ground with localized microbursts that uprooted trees, flattened fields, and peeled the roofs off trailers.
Using every meg of his computational abilities, Mahnmut gauged the vectors involved and jetted over to the upper hull, all ten jets firing in microbursts to adjust his dangerous trajectory, until he was within a meter of the hull.
Was it possible that man had taken a,n evolutionary leap, had innately discovered a method of crunching himself into ten million bits of information, of packeting himself into microbursts of deliverable data consumable to even the crudest receiving unit, something as crude as, say, the household plumbing-- why not?
Some low-altitude microbursts are even strong enough to damage trees and buildings on the ground.
The system transmitted microbursts at low radiation levels that would be far less detectable than voices.
If the Posleen were using detection equipment at all, the encrypted microbursts would appear as nothing more than the sort of subspace anomalies usually found on planetary surfaces.
Consciously directed electrical microbursts release chemical molecules from the neuron sacks at the end of the fibers, transmitting them to receiving neurons.