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convective overshooting  

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  • Convective overshoot is a phenomenon of convection carrying material beyond an unstable region of the atmosphere into a stratified, stable region. Overshoot is caused by the momentum of the convecting material, which carries the material beyond the unstable region. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_overshoot)

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  • convective overshoot

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