transport

From Glossary of Meteorology
The movement of a substance or characteristic.

Characteristics that can be transported in the atmosphere are heat (temperature), moisture, momentum, chemicals, turbulence, etc. The transport is sometimes interpreted as a flux density (characteristic per unit area per time), or as a flow rate (characteristic per time).
See transport processes.

Lines or surfaces associated with a partial differential equation, or with a set of such equations, which are at all points tangent to characteristic directions, determined by certain specified linear combinations of the equations.

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