Author Question: Conditional instability occurs whenever the environmental lapse rate is ____ the moist adiabatic ... (Read 93 times)

littleanan · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

Conditional instability occurs whenever the environmental lapse rate is ____ the moist adiabatic rate and the dry adiabatic rate.
a. higher than
b. less than
c. between
d. the same as
e. double

Question 2

On rare occasions when the environmental lapse rate exceeds about ____ (the autoconvective lapse rate), convection becomes spontaneous, resulting in the automatic overturning of the air.
a. 3.4 degrees Celsius per 10 m
b. 3.4 degrees Celsius per 1,000 m
c. 34 degrees Celsius per 100 m
d. 34 degrees Celsius per 10,000 m
e. 3.4 degrees Celsius per 100 m