inversion
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Pollution spikes are common in the city, especially during thermal inversions when a layer of warm air sits above a layer of cold air, trapping smog over the city.
From Barron's
Pollution spikes are common in the city of nearly 400,000, especially during thermal inversions when a layer of warm air sits above a layer of cold air, trapping smog over the mountain-ringed city.
From Barron's
Using the buoy data in a technique known as inversion, the team reexamined the source of the tsunami.
From Science Daily
We will continue to watch January VIX futures versus February VIX futures for signs of inversion; that is not in the cards right now, as February continues to trade higher than January.
From MarketWatch
Yet Masaomi Yasunaga does just that with his sculptures that draw on Japanese pottery traditions while transforming the creative process through a daring inversion.
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