adjective
- transported or carried by the flow of a fluid, especially air or water
Usage: meteorology; physics
Examples
- The advected warm air mass brought higher temperatures to the region.
- Pollutants were advected downstream by the river current.
- The meteorologist tracked the advected moisture from the ocean.
- Heat was advected horizontally across the continent.
- The advected particles settled in areas far from their source.
- Scientists studied how nutrients are advected through ocean currents.