Rising, Saturated Air Cools Less
5 m/s
497 m/s
502 m/s
502 m/s
497 m/s
Rising Expanding
Sinking Contracting
As
a saturated parcel rises and expands, the release of latent heat mitigates
the
adiabatic cooling
Cooling
for saturated air varies with mixing ratio.
We
will use an average value of 6oC/km for moisture lapse
rate
Note: sinking clear
air always
warms at dry lapse rate
14oC
20oC
no
heat transfer
Ahrens, Fig 5.2
latent heating
502 m/s