In terms of plate tectonics, divergent boundaries are areas under tension where lithospheric plates are pushed apart by magma upwelling from the mantle. Lithospheric plates are regions of Earth's crust and upper mantle that are fractured into...

In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary (divergent fault boundary or divergent plate boundary), (but also known as a constructive boundary or an extensional boundary) is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from...

ABSTRACT The authors have performed a numerical experiment using Mesoscale Model 5 (MMS) with a horizontal resolution of 9 km to simulate hourly atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics along the U.S. California coast for all of June 1996. The MMS results were evaluated using...

(Manuscript received 11 February 2000, in final form 26 June 2000) ABSTRACT Data from several surface meteorological networks in the vicinity of the U.S. Department of Energy's Southern Great Plains Cloud and Radiation Testbed were used to investigate the relationship between boundary...