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overrunning

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: overrunning
(′ō·və′rən·iŋ)

(meteorology) A condition existing when an air mass is in motion aloft above another air mass of greater density at the surface; this term usually is applied in the case of warm air ascending the surface of a warm front or quasi-stationary front.


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