Lifting trough
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lifting trough
A colloquial term for an upper-level trough that is weakening, often filling, and moving poleward due to a jet streak on the downstream side of the trough, causing a net export of cyclonic vorticity out of the base of the trough.
Contrast digging trough.
Term edited 15 November 2021.
