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thermals<br />
• discrete rather than continuous<br />
• total buoyancy B, not buoyancy flux F<br />
• “a special case <strong>of</strong> a buoyant vortex ring”<br />
(Turner, 1973, section 6.3.2)<br />
Virtual origin in terms <strong>of</strong> initial radius b 0 : z v = b 0 / α<br />
Integrate w equation to get z ~ t 1/2<br />
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