thermals

Once high enough, the pilot detaches from the towline to begin the search for the rising columns of air, known as thermals, that can keep the sailplane aloft for hours.

Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2010

Is net convection between surface and lower atmosphere really limited to that little flow called 'thermals'?

Eli Rabett and RW Wood EliRabett 2009

Yesterday's warmer weather provided the first opportunity in many days for many shoppers to reach the shops, leading to a surge in demand for cold weather clothing, such as thermals and hats.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

Once spring gets nearer, the higher sun angle warms the Earth more readily and this causes rising columns of air called "thermals".

TheDenverChannel.com - Local News 2010

It is of no consolation to me that medical students are mostly stunted, and that my nostrils are therefore located a good eighteen inches (on average) above the top of their head, because as everybody knows hot air rises, and one can almost hearthe teeming bacteria jumping gleefullyinto mid-airout of the cheap white fabric (50% cotton, 50% polyester, with depressinglylow thread count, I notice) and ascend ecstatically on miniature gusts and thermals.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

I say unpractical because even if you decide to go hunting with a pocket full of dryer lint, and you burn your thermals thats really only two days of warmth if your actually trying to find your way back to civilization when a lot of the time you may run the risk of being lost for multiple days.

Build A Survival Fire With Condoms and Underwear 2009

Usually I pass most of the summer shooting through thermals and waiting impatiently for my barrel to cool before going for that next shot.

Another Take on Long-Range Shooting 2009

I say unpractical because even if you decide to go hunting with a pocket full of dryer lint, and you burn your thermals thats really only two days of warmth if your actually trying to find your way back to civilization when a lot of the time you may run the risk of being lost for multiple days.

Build A Survival Fire With Condoms and Underwear 2009

Usually I pass most of the summer shooting through thermals and waiting impatiently for my barrel to cool before going for that next shot.

Another Take on Long-Range Shooting 2009

Without forgetting ancient Europe, the Roman thermals where in antiquity the high authorities gathered to make important political decisions.

Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011