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    Adiabatic

    Temperature
    Changes
    An adiabatic process is
    one in which no heat lost
    or gained.
    • When air is compressed, it
    warms.
    • When air is expand, it cools.
    Processes that
    Lift Air
    Orographic
    Lifting
    -In which air is forced to
    rise over a mountainous
    barrier.
    Windward Leewar
    side d
    Frontal
    Wedging
    -In which warmer,
    less dense, air is forced
    over cooler, denser air
    Convergen
    -A pileup ce
    of horizontal
    air flow results in
    upward direction.
    Localized
    Convective
    Lifting
    -Unequal surface
    heating heats localized
    pockets of air.
    Atmospheric
    Stability
    1. A rising air parcel cooler than
    surrounding air - stable air - parcel
    tends to sink.

    2. A rising air parcel warmer than


    surrounding air - unstable air - parcel
    tends to keep rising.
    Absolute
    Stability
    Environmental lapse
    rate is less than wet
    adiabatic rate.
    Absolute Instabilit
    Environmental lapse rate
    is greater than dry
    adiabatic rate.
    Conditional Instabilit
    Moist air has an environmental lapse
    rate between the dry and wet adiabatic
    rates. Air is stable with respect to an
    unsaturated parcel of air, but unstable
    with respect to a saturated parcel of air.
    Conditional Instabilit
    "Conditional" because air must
    be forced upward before it
    reaches the level where it is
    unstable and rises on its own.
    Stability and
    Daily Weather
    Stability is enhanced
    by:
    1.Radiation cooling of Earth's surface
    after sunset.
    2.The cooling of an air mass from
    below as it passes over a cool
    surface.
    3.General subsidence within an air
    Stability is enhanced
    by:
    Instability is enhanced
    by:
    1.Intense solar heating warming the lowermost
    layer of the atmosphere.
    2.The heating of an air mass from below as it
    passes over a hot surface.
    3.General upward movement of air caused by
    processes such as orographic lifting, frontal
    wedging, convergence.
    4.Radiation cooling from cloud tops.
    THANK
    YOU

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