Different lapse rates within dry and moist air lead to instability.

Since the slopes are the two lapse rates, their difference is about 8 K/km.

The change in temperature with height (lapse rate) is relatively small from near the surface through a deep layer.

This effect means the lapse rate during the day on Mount Kenya is lower than average for dry air.

His early work highlighted the importance of the lapse rate in determining the climate's response to radiation changes.

Another meteorological factor affecting the valley's climate is the "lapse rate."

The measurable lapse rate is affected by the moisture content of the air (humidity).

Definition, equations and tables of lapse rate from the Planetary Data system.

Each layer has a different lapse rate, defining the rate of change in temperature with height.

At night the lapse rate is again lower than average for dry air due to the katabatic winds from the glaciers.

More generally, the actual rate at which the temperature drops with altitude is called the environmental lapse rate.

This indicates that the temperature in the atmosphere above them either drops off very slowly or not at all with altitude (see Lapse rate).

The ambient lapse rate is the temperature change in the (non-displaced) air per vertical distance.

Under certain conditions, the lapse rate can increase significantly in a short amount of time, resulting in convection.

Lapse rate - About the rate of decrease of temperature with altitude.

The lapse rate is defined as the rate of decrease with height for an atmospheric variable.

Lapse rates yielded limited instability for severe weather, with a secondary cold front acting as a trigger.

The rate at which temperature decreases with height under such conditions is called the adiabatic lapse rate.

Higher altitudes are cooler than lower altitudes, which is explained by the lapse rate.

This lapse rate varies strongly with temperature.

The varying environmental lapse rates throughout the Earth's atmosphere are of critical importance in meteorology, particularly within the troposphere.

Later on, a warm front moved passed Jackson, Mississippi, allowing more moist air into the region and increasing lapse rates.

The diurnal temperature fluctuation reduces with altitude, and so the lapse rate decreases during the course of the day.

Castellanus clouds are evidence of mid-atmospheric instability and a high mid-altitude lapse rate.

There are two types of lapse rate: