convective

If you can grok what the convective derivative really means, this starts to make intuitive sense.

The convective cooling to the air is tertiary, but important (and conduction of the mug to the table probably isn't completely negligible).

No convective or conductive heat transfer to speak of, so it's entirely radiative, which means a couple layers of tinfoil reduce it to functionally zero.

If only there were someone working on high-accuracy weather forecast systems for convective systems using existing cheap networked sensors;).

This is how cacti work; the needles slow surrounding air to reduce moisture loss through convective evaporation.

That makes the (incorrect) assumption that you have a perfect absorber with no convective or radiative losses.

My current kiln design should nearly eliminate convective losses, and will greatly reduce radiative by refocusing the lost energy.

When the temperature is more than 35°C and the air is dry, evaporative cooling may be improved by air movement, although this improvement will be offset by the convective heat.

This specific delay though was caused by convective clouds being too close to the launch.

Early initial targets are large convective systems (like these) that are difficult to predict.

Latitude may affect the eddy currents and resulting convective shear on the film surface imparted by angular momentum from the earth’s spin.

Years later, I still wonder how such a convective man could even go to those dark areas?

As far as I know, current models say that radiative transfer ("random walk" described in the article) happens from the edge of the convective zone all down to the center.

This is mostly natural catastrophe ("nat cat" or "cat risk"); usually there's one dominant driver of that ("severe convective storms" in Texas; floods and hurricanes in places like Florida; earthquakes in California).

"Other important biophysical changes alter the amount of water that evaporates or transpires from plants and the soil, the roughness or unevenness of the plant canopy, and ultimately the extent of convective clouds and rainfall." I think the author misreads the referenced science reports, in which it seems to me they are suggesting the forest becomes less of a carbon sink as it gets warmer.