{"id":110,"date":"2023-05-18T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2023-05-18T22:47:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:47:32","slug":"weather-glossary-q","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/?page_id=110","title":{"rendered":"Weather Glossary \u2013 Q"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"110\" class=\"elementor elementor-110\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-473d57c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"473d57c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d19795\" data-id=\"9d19795\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbaa70b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cbaa70b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Q<\/strong><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>QPF<\/strong>&#8211; Quantitative Precipitation Forecast<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>QG<\/strong><b>\u00a0Forcing<\/b>&#8211; Upward vertical velocity generated by low level convergence or upper level divergence. Example of phenomena that produce upward QG forcing include low level warm air and moisture advection, positive differential vorticity advection, and the right rear and left front quadrant of a jet streak. If QG forcing is in reference to sinking air, example that cause this are low level cold air and dry air advection, negative differential vorticity advection, and the left rear and right front quadrants of a jet streak.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Q<\/strong><b>&#8211;<\/b><strong>VECTORS<\/strong><b>\u00a0(QVEC, DIVQ)<\/b>&#8211; A mathematical entity (Q-vectors do not exist in the atmosphere) that allows forecasters to better identify areas of vertical motion. Q-vectors essentially show vertical motions arising from the combination of differential vorticity advection (changes of advection with height) and temperature (thickness) advection. Areas where Q-vectors converge implies upward motion and\u00a0<strong>Q<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>vector<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>divergence<\/strong>\u00a0(DIVQ) implies an area of sinking motion. Note: Negative Q-vector divergence is the same mathematically as Q-vector convergence, so the statement &#8220;&#8230;negative divq&#8230;&#8221; means Q-vector convergence.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q QPF&#8211; Quantitative Precipitation Forecast QG\u00a0Forcing&#8211; Upward vertical velocity generated by low level convergence or upper level divergence. Example of phenomena that produce upward QG forcing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/254"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityweather.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}