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A Lapse Rate Depiction for Clear-Air Convection

Abraham Arnold Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, Md. 20810

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Print Publication:
01 Nov 1976
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1976)015<1189:ALRDFC>2.0.CO;2
Page(s):
1189–1192
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Abstract

Using moisture as a source identifier and as a tracer, a pair of lapse rates were constructed which give the temperatures associated with rising and with descending air. This lapse rate depiction is discussed both in terms of what it exhibits and in what it describes of the clear-air convective process. The data for this depiction were taken by an aircraft in a field of convective cells.

Abstract

Using moisture as a source identifier and as a tracer, a pair of lapse rates were constructed which give the temperatures associated with rising and with descending air. This lapse rate depiction is discussed both in terms of what it exhibits and in what it describes of the clear-air convective process. The data for this depiction were taken by an aircraft in a field of convective cells.

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