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Relative Humidity, Ascent, and Nondivergent Wind

Caption:
+850 (upper left), 700 (upper right), 600 (lower left), and 500 (lower right) hPa multipanel plot.
+Ascent (solid contours every 0.1 Pa/s starting at -0.1 Pa/s; smoothed by 20 passes of a 9-point local smoother).
+Nondivergent wind (standard barbs in knots).
+Relative humidity (shaded according to the color bar in %).
+Fields were computed from the 0.5x0.5^o NCEP-GFS data.