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Thermal
Column of rising air in the lower altitudes of Earth's atmosphere / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the atmospheric phenomenon. For other uses, see Thermal (disambiguation).
A thermal column (or thermal) is a rising mass of buoyant air, a convective current in the atmosphere, that transfers heat energy vertically.[1] Thermals are created by the uneven heating of Earth's surface from solar radiation, and are an example of convection, specifically atmospheric convection.
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