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Lapse rate

The lapse rate is the rate at which an atmospheric variable, normally temperature in Earth's atmosphere, falls with altitude. Lapse rate arises from the word lapse (in its "becoming less" sense, not its "interruption" sense). In dry air, the adiabatic lapse rate (i.e., decrease in temperature of a parcel of air that rises in the atmosphere without…

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Environmental lapse rate

Cause

Convection and adiabatic expansion

Mathematics of the adiabatic lapse rate

Effect on weather

Lapse rate in an isolated column of gas

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Lapse rate

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Lapse rate

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related to Moist adiabatic lapse rate · 13
Lapse rate → After, As, Before, C/1, C/km, F/1, F/km, MALR, SALR, The, Water, While, With
related to Lapse rate in an isolated column of gas · 12
Lapse rate → At Earth's, Earth's, Gamma, James Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell, Maxwell's, Santiago, This, Tolman, Tolman's, Visser, When
related to Effect on weather · 8
Lapse rate → As, CCL, Earth's, If, LCL, The, They, This
is a · 5
Lapse rate → constant 9.8, decrease in temperature of air with altitude for a specific time and place, negative of the rate of temperature change with altitude change, prerequisite for the greenhouse effect.The presence of greenhouse gases on a planet causes radiative cooling of the air, rate at which an atmospheric variable
has impact · 5
Lapse rate → However, If, So, The, This
related to External links · 5
Lapse rate → Definition, Lapse RateEnvironmental, National Science Digital Library, Planetary Data, Texas
related to Cause · 3
Lapse rate → Above, The, Within
related to Environmental lapse rate · 3
Lapse rate → Glossary, Meteorology, Typically
see also · 1
Lapse rate → Adiabatic

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Lapse rateis arate at which an atmospheric variable0.90text
Lapse rateis adecrease in temperature of air with altitude for a specific time and place0.90text
Lapse rateis anegative of the rate of temperature change with altitude change0.90text
Lapse rateis aconstant 9.80.90text
Lapse rateis aprerequisite for the greenhouse effect.The presence of greenhouse gases on a planet causes radiative cooling of the air0.90text
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