Convective momentum transport

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Convective Momentum Transport - in the atmosphere it is an exchange of momentum usually due to vertical motion associated with clouds.

The essential processes responsible for cloud convective momentum transport in tropics are: (i) the vertical momentum advection due to subsidence of environmental air compensating cloud mass flux; (ii) the detrainment of excess momentum from clouds; and (iii) the convection induced pressure gradient force.