Meridional

When the zonal flow buckles, the atmosphere can flow in a more longitudinal (or meridional) direction, and thus the term " meridional flow " arises.

This would lead to a series of deleterious effects on the health of the ocean, to include a shifting of the entire Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) system toward the south.

Pabortsava and Lampitt collected their seawater samples during the 26th Atlantic Meridional Transect expedition in September to November 2016.

A related type of isomerism in octahedral MX 3 Y 3 complexes is facial–meridional (or fac/mer) isomerism, in which different numbers of ligands are cis or trans to each other.

Detailed analysis of the visible and microwave data revealed that the periodical changes of brightness are not completely symmetrical around the solstices, which also indicates a change in the meridional albedo patterns.

If these three ligands and the metal ion are in one plane, the isomer is said to be meridional, or mer.

In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences selected the meridional definition over the pendular definition because the force of gravity varies slightly over the surface of the Earth, which affects the period of a pendulum.

Latitude Developments Connected With Geodesy and Cartography, (with tables, including a table for Lambert equal area meridional projection).

The propagation of light through optical fibre can take place via meridional rays or skew rays.

These scenarios are often described in meteorology as zonal or meridional.

These skew rays suffer only partial reflection while meridional rays are completely guided.

This pattern can buckle and thus become a meridional flow.