However, the atmospheric flow of material can be complex and hard to predict.
This general motion of atmospheric flow is known as "zonal".
The Jovian bands are bounded by zonal atmospheric flows (winds), called jets.
Shallow models cannot explain how the observed atmospheric flows on Jupiter violate stability criteria.
An atmospheric flow in which the tangential acceleration is not negligible is called allisobaric.
Gradient Flow is useful in studying atmospheric flow rotating around high and low pressures centers with small Rossby numbers.
Records indicate that large-scale atmospheric flow progressively returned to a primarily zonal pattern.
They concluded that ball lightning is most likely a wandering St. Elmo's fire, a low-temperature soliton in the atmospheric electric current flow.
These forcing factors directly influence local to regional atmospheric flow which in turn, can affect large-scale circulation over other areas of the globe (known as teleconnections).
There was an atmosphere and a constant atmospheric flow from Brightside to Darkside.