Lapse rate
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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 dry air, the adiabatic lapse rat
The higher lake, Czarny Staw pod Rysami (elevation 1,583 metres (5,194 ft)), is still frozen while the lower lake, Morskie Oko (elevation 1,395 metres (4,577 ft)) has almost entirely melted already. Photo from Polish side of the Tatra Mountains, May 2019.
The latent heat of vaporization adds energy to clouds and storms.
Tropopause
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The tropopause is the atmospheric boundary that demarcates the lowest two layers of the atmosphere of Earth – the troposphere and stratosphere – which occurs approximately 17 kilometres above the equa
Lapse rate
…cooling to space via thermal radiation, and upward heat transport via natural convection (which carries hot air and latent heat upward). Above the tropopause, convection does not occur and all cooling is radiative. Within the troposphere, the lapse rate is essentially the consequence of a balance between (a…
The tropopause extends to high altitudes in the tropical latitudes and extends to low altitudes in the polar latitudes.