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Questions for ADIABATIC AND STABILITY1

Answer the following questions

1. From which of the following can the stability of the atmosphere be determined?
2. Why does air cool as it rises?
3. What happens to the temperature of a saturated air mass when descending?
4. What is the effect of a strong low level inversion?
5. A mass of unsaturated air is forced to rise till just under the condensation level. It then settles back to its original position
6. What happens to the stability of the atmosphere in an inversion? (Temp increasing with height) Absolutely stable
7. The DALR is
8. A parcel of air cooling by more than 1°C/100m is said to be?
9. In unstable air, surface visibility is most likely to be restricted by
10. In an air mass with no clouds the surface temperature is 15°C and 13°C at 1000m. This layer of air is
11. In still air a lapse rate of 1.2°C/100m refers to
12. When warm air is advected in the lower part of a cold layer of air
13. What happens to stability of the atmosphere in an isothermal layer? (Temp constant with height)
14. The temperature at the surface is 15°C, the temperature at 1000m is 13°C.Is the atmosphere
15. In an unstable layer there are cumuliform clouds. The vertical extent of these clouds depends on the
16. A layer of air can be
17. During an adiabatic process heat is
18. ELR is 1°C/100m
19. The stability in a layer is increasing if
20. What happens to the temperature of a saturated air mass when forced to descend?
21. The rate of cooling of ascending saturated air is less than the rate of cooling of ascending unsaturated air because:
22. Which of the following gives conditionally unstable conditions when saturated?
23. If the ELR is 0.65°C/100m